good kid

I feel quite lost. — I've never really had someone I could talk to about my problems. I have lots of people in my life I COULD talk to, but I feel like there's no one who could understand. I don't know where it starts. …

Update 3 months later — A little more than 3 months ago, I discovered my wife was having an online affair that was more than sexting, it was full of I love you and a whole bunch of things I don’t want to dive back into. I’v…

My Asian parents demanded I (19f) break up with my bf — So I went to the UK to get my undergraduate degree and in my second year I met the sweetest guy and started dating him. My mom had always been supportive of the idea of me dating, and so I looped her …

My Parents Ruined My Life — My mom would call the police on me whenever she wanted to discipline me. She ruined two birthdays where I just cried in my room out of depression. She called the police (who comforted me) saying that …

It was so hard being the perfect child everywhere but home — I don’t know if this is a common experience of emotional neglect but for as long as I can remember every single teacher, friends parent, stranger that interacted with me would always praise me to my p…

I'm struggling living abroad, but I'm not going home because I don't want to live near my mom — I’m really struggling living abroad at the moment, but I also know I can’t live in the same country as my mom, even thought it means sacrificing my comfort, happiness, financial stability, quality of …

Am I in the wrong?? (16 y/o) — I just want to get the opinion of the public because I feel like I'm going insane. I try to be a really good kid (straight A's, no drugs/drinking, always willing to help out) and I still get treated l…

Parent wants to kick me out for my disabilities — throwaway for anonymity, I’m 21F, i live with my mom and brother, we lived in this bought house for about 3 years now. I grew up in an abusive household, which i helped my mother escape the abuse of …

i feel like im breaking and idk where to say this all — maybe there is a better more specific to what im saying kind of subreddit to put this on but i dont really know much abt reddits or what exactly im allowed to say where so: **tw: abuse, neglect, vio…

my mother is forcing me to move in with her and i have no one on my side — for context, i'm a 16 year old girl living in australia, my parents divorced and my mum moved out 2 years ago. my financial situation isnt the best so my grandparents live with me along with my father…

I spent my childhood trying to keep my mother alive - was this normal? (30F) — I’m a 30F, living away from my hometown and parents for the past 6 years. I don’t really know where to begin, because I only recently started realizing that what I went through growing up might not ha…

My [42M] adult stepson’s [19M] job fell through, now he wants to live at home — I \[42M\] hope this sub can help because I want to navigate this with grace without being a doormat or a jackass. My spouse \[39F\] has a 19 yo stepson who had a potential career lined up but it fell …

I didn’t belittle parents or parenthood. What are you on about? Hit a nerve? It takes virtually zero effort to make a baby. It takes a lot of effort to raise kids well. I will congratulate the hell …

The cycle DID stop with you. You raised good kids!

As a kid my mom would always threaten that she would leave us at the store/ wherever we were of we misbehaved. A few times she acted like she was, and my sibling and I ran around scared and panicking …

1. Dated a narc coworker (I know I know terrible decision) she was inquiring about hanging out outside of work March 2024 while she still was in a relationship she labeled abusive. That was my first…

You were such a good kid. I’d leave you alone for hours as a toddler to look after your baby sister and you’d just make up games alone.

I feel you. Have you read or listened to the book Good Kids? It touches on this topic and how parents’ reactions shape future actions and how kids need the ability to act out in order to figure out …

The full title is “Good Kids: Why You Suffered in Silence and How to Break the Cycle” by Maggie Nick. I listen to it as an audiobook on Spotify and her voice is so calming as well. Hopefully you can …

"You were surely a bad kid, because being a certain age means you are BAD!" The thing is: If nobody shows you how to act, and you have to raise yourself, it can be really hard to be a "good kid". I …

Due to my mom not being a good parent I was taken in by my grandmother. They both could classify as narcissistic. I did my best to be a good kid. Never cause trouble. I always felt like a burden and w…

It really is. I wasn't the "scapegoat" (that was my brother). I was the "good kid" that "nobody worried about" and was emotionally neglected. I ended up just as mentally f'd up as my brother though - …

That’s terrible, that’s so much to unpack. You were a good kid, sending love and healing your way

Yuuuuuup. My Ndad would charm his way into anything and always manipulate the group into letting him become the 'leader', then when he got bored of that he'd abandon it, leaving it to die. I always ha…

Sun is in the 8th house, aries. 8th house is an idle place. your 8th house ruler mars is also weakened in detriment in taurus and overshadowed by jupiter and saturn. Your chart ruler mercury is also i…

It's hard to notice ourselves normalizing abuse when we were gaslit since childhood. In my mid-twenties I was chatting with my friend and brought up a time when I played with my dad's penis and my m…

I don’t even know what to think anymore more. I turn 49 this week. I’ve been working through my trauma intensively for the last 3 years. Since my panic attacks started because I made a home for myself…

You can do both. The 3D is already here. It's based on passed beliefs. Even children who are normally good and well-behaved still get punished/corrected when decide on the rare bad behavior. That doe…

You’re a good kid. If you treat people with love and respect then you will do okay. Some of my (m, 33) dearest friends are women and the huge majority I haven’t made any sexual advances toward.

Oh god this resonates so much with my experience, anything I did was useless. Not asking help to other family members because they were like "parent is just like that, be a good kid and all will be go…

That’s the exact emotion going through my head when she attuned to sorrow. At first, I thought she was accusing me of being bad. I knew I was a good kid! But there was no discourse, only me feeling …

Break up and make sure he knows his mom is the reason. He's young so standing up to her is gonna be hard. He's clearly a good kid but there are plenty of other fish in the sea.

You good kid. Don’t let anyone or yourself tell you you’re any less. Most of all have fun! You’ll have a fun life

But, what you described is narcissistic. You weren't *JUST* not allowed to date. She beat you. She also implied that the way she loves you should take the place of* romantic love.* That is weird, …

Why wouldn’t you send this? By all means send it. You did good kid. Really. Very sincere. Used introspection. Didn’t tear yourself a new one for the sake of hoping sounding pathetic would work. Saw wh…

I did and I got arrested and it kind of made me famous in my hometown. People were kind of in awe that I had the guts to do something like that since I was always a “good kid”. Now I kind of have the …

THISSS they always talk about how I never do "adult things" and i need to "grow up" its like wow. I wonder fucking why when I was so sheltered and babied for so long, yet such a "good kid" for not thr…

Same pinch. Whenever I go out my condition is I have to get back home before sun down. That's precisely 5-5.30 pm. Yes I'm 20 and the rule is still valid. And I go out 1 day a year with consent of bot…

My mom took me to the doctor to drug test me when I was 15/15... I was a good kid before that. The doctor had to ask her to leave the room to talk to me alone.

Yes that was my experience as well, I was a good kid and I had good grades, didn’t give any problem so it did not matter what I did or didn’t do, if it was healthy or not, even physical appearance cha…