u/silentdads2026

Context of what I’m saying.

My mother is addicted to pain pills. She has been for at least the last 15 to 18 years. Her brain is practically mush. She lives on disability and SSI and I’ve told her multiple times over and over again to apply for low income housing and she’s always like oh well that’s gonna take years. OK well when I told you to do it, you refuse to do it and now it’s been multiple years and you could’ve had a place now and she lives with me.

What I’m trying to say is, I have struggled with painkillers now because of her for at least the past 10 years up down high lows, trying to get off of them with your mother who lives with you who is prescribed them by the boatload and has surgeries every fucking time you turn around so she’s never hardly ever out a medicine, it makes it hard for me to get clean and stay clean!

So how do you get out? Anybody know what I’m talking about?

“Some people deserve the title “dad” more than others.

My little sister’s father used to try to get my older brother, older sister, and me to call him dad too. Even as kids, something in me rejected it. I couldn’t explain it back then, but I knew he wasn’t safe.

Years later, it turns out that instinct wasn’t wrong.

He’s now facing charges involving his wife’s oldest daughter. She’s technically an adult, but mentally vulnerable, and he knew exactly that. He preyed on it.

What messes with me the most is realizing kids can sometimes feel evil in a person long before they can explain it out loud.

I just remember thinking:
‘No. You are not my dad.’”

My daughter is 10, and she had never broken, or fractured any bone in her body. That all changed yesterday afternoon.

She has a tire swing, had it since she was probably 5. No issues. Until again, yesterday afternoon. Fell off of it. From the very top. Probably 4-5 feet high. Straight to the ground, and tried to catch herself. Mind you, she weighs a whole 71 pounds.

Anyway, last night my daughter learned she in fact is not invincible lol. I love my boog to death. And seeing her in so much pain hurts my soul.

Anyone else been through something like this? Or similar??

Do your parents ever make you feel uncomfortable? If so, drop a comment on how and why.

Never. And I mean never. Have i believed in once upon a time. Not because i don’t believe it is real. But because as a kid, having you innocence stripped away as well as seeing your siblings go as well. It just rewires your brain. You become way to mature, way to early in life.

So when asked if I think I’ll ever get a life worth having, I just tell people that look what I have! I was dealt a dogshit hand, and it had taken me yearssss to build what I have. So no, I do t believe in once upon a time. I believe in working on turning your life around on your own because this world will chew you up and spit you out if you aren’t tough enough.

Is it just me or does anybody else have a stepmom or stepdad that they don’t call their stepmom or stepdad? They just called them either their dad‘s wife or their mom‘s husband when speaking on them?

I have never called anyone my mom besides my mom and I have never called anyone my dad besides my dad, because no one besides them has been that to me considering the Mom and the Dad that I have themselves weren’t very good at being a mom and dad.

It’s mostly my dad’s wife.. I won’t even call her by name. Not even when speaking to her in person. She gets a hey, you!, from me. I just can’t allow someone to have that kind of accolade, when she has been the root cause of my mental, and emotional issues growing up from all of the psychological warfare she created inside that house.

So, is it just me? Or.. is there anyone who can relate?