What is the most traumatic thing your parents have done to you?

Answer 1

my mother is manic depressive, so when I was about 10 years old, I was playing in an organized soccer game. She was in one of her manic states and showed up to the game in a homeade clown outfit complete with makeup. She spent the entire first half yelling at the coaches and when halftime came, she went out onto the middle of the field and did a halftime show involving dancing, singing, and screaming. Good times.

Answer 2

Ive seen my parents fight a lot....and sometimes violently throughout childhood all the way into adulthood. The earliest I can remember is from age 5 and I honestly dont have many happy memories from my home. Im 26 now and they still fight terribly. I mean Ive seen them verbally abuse each other, sometimes physically abuse each other....my mom has started it some, but honestly its both, my mom has broken windows before, thrown things at my dad. Just basically yell at the top of their lungs at each other, yet even after 35 years together, and them constantly fighting and saying how unhappy they are, they choose to do nothing about it....no counseling, no divorce. It really sucks...even now. After my parents would get done fighting with each other, they would be in such a foul mood that I would get yelled at all the time. Im suprised Ive ever been able to have a normal relationship with my husband who Ive been together with for almost 12 years.

Answer 3

I would have to say that despite the thing that I had to go through the hardest would be to realize that my parents were people and that they would make mistakes because they were people and that they also were a product of the way that they were brought up. Why do people complain about how they were brought up with out trying to understand that you learn how to parent or how not to parent from their parents. IF their grandparents didn't do a great job with their parents who was there to teach your parent how to parent???? No one is perfect and at some point in your life you have to accept responsibility for your own actions and not on how you were raised. You can't change that but you can change how you react to it.

Answer 4

My mom was a neat freak and narced on us to our Dad all of the time. She shoved religion down our throats to the point where we hated hearing the word church and won't set foot in one. Now my brother is an ex-drug addict with Bi-Polar disorder who spent the first 6 years after graduation in and out of jail and homeless shelters. I am wiccan, have two children out of wed-lock and one of marriage, my husband is the anti-christ, and no matter how clean my house is it will never be clean enough for my mother, we are literally like comparing Donna Reed with ROSEANNE (except I don't look like her) It doesn't sound traumatic, but I know I am alot of ways because of how religously pushy and overbearing she was and I think she drove my brother to the darkside.

Answer 5

I was sexually and physically abused. I wasn't going to post anything but I felt it was necessary to let people know that it does happen and not keep it behind closed doors anymore. It's a very traumatic thing to happen to a child and I hope that no one else has gone through it.

Answer 6

I may have done a traumatic thing to my parents not them!

Answer 7

When I was a teenager I had a long list of wrongs that my parents have done. Even into my twenties I had a couple of beefs. Now that I'm pushing 40, I can't hardly think of anything. My parents are wacky and wonderful.

Answer 8

When I was about eight I wasn't the most obedient kid, you know? But what 8 year old is? Well, cleaning was probably my least favorite thing to do so when my mom would ask me to wash dishes, clean the table, fix up my messy drawers, etc. I would complain and say I'd do it later. Which I eventually would.

Well, once she was arguing about how my drawers were messy and I couldn't fold clothes correctly and well I yelled back that it was no big deal and she started flipping out and told me I had to go practice folding clothes yadda ya, so I went, complaining all the way, to fold the clean load. There she is watching over me and telling me that I was doing it wrong every two seconds. Well, eventually I threw one of the shirts on the floor in anger because 8-year-old me just couldn't get it down. So she starts screaming at me and smacked me (which she'd done loads of times), then threatens to get a belt out -scaring the crap out of me-, so I tried again. When I finally got it 'right' after like 30 minutes, I was like crying and I yelled at her and told her, "I hate you!" And without missing a beat she said it right back. She didn't even hesitate =/. So then I went into my room and cried. She never did apologize... and I used to just like... pay attention to how often she said "I love you." after that, even when we did get along (my dad always did, so why wouldn't mom?) and well I realized she only said it back to me, after I said it to her first... I'll aways remember that, too.

Then later in life when she wasn't so bad anymore I asked her one night (when she was tipsy, mind you) why she was always meaner to me than to my sister. And she told me it was because "I would have an easier life than my sister ever would," because I was smarter, (as rude as this sounds) I am a bit prettier "/, and I had more friends than her at the time. But despite what my mom thinks, I think I'll have it rougher than my sister ever will .___.

And, to Renner, I'm very sorry to hear that. Mine is nothing compared to yours, and I was reluctant to post it (mine). You just inspired me to ;).

Answer 9

My mom took my brother and sister and I and left my dad for one week. I was in the 6th grade, and remember getting in the car after school every day that week, and each time asking my mom if we were going home yet. There were more details, but this is only the third time I told the story.

Answer 10

I was sexually, emotionally and occassionally physically abused from 7 to 16 by my step-father. My real father wasn't a part of my life, but mother's part was mostly emotional neglect.

Renner: I agree completely--it's awful and it happens entirely too much and I wish like hell I could do something to stop just one child getting hurt the way I did.

To the person who said, "I'd like to see someone top that".... if you were never hurt and you didn't spend every night fearing for your life, consider yourself lucky. It could've been much much worse.