selfihateyouithink reblogged
You’re learning the deeply frightening lesson that you are often more mature than your parents. You’re learning that sometimes your loving parents can hurt you, and smile while they’re doing it, and expect you to smile too. You’re learning that adults are imperfect and unreliable, with jagged edges, and those jagged edges can cut you when they hug.
Jennifer Peepas (via internal-acceptance-movement)
#Quote#Jennifer Peepas#I knew this by about the time I was thirteen when my mother told me a year or more's worth of babysitting money#wasn't something I was ever gonna see#and that from now on she'd pay me by letting me on our home computer whenever she was gone#I knew this when she'd buy desserts for her friends and not for her children and yell the children to tears when they ate one out of the fou#four in the fridge#I knew this when my mother tricked me out of jumping off the roof to get away from her and called my grandmother#so my grandmother could scold me over the phone while I cowered on the couch#I know this every fucking day dealing with my grandmother#Same#Hi yes this is me#Adulthood#Parenthood#Abuse culture#Abuse cw#I need this because humanity#They're works of art#but not all works are beautiful or beneficial#Life philosophy#Random