I felt unparented and wasn’t mature enough to make good decisions. That sent me straight to mental illness.
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I suffered from neglect during childhood, i would have been better off being adopted by parents who actually wanted a child.
Same, here. My parents adopted my brother out of fear of their parents finding out their first two pregnancies were stillborn and that that made them inferior people. Actually, I think they just didn’t want children to begin with. But after they adopted, my sister and I were born. I think my brother dispelled a lot of their fear.
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That’s really sad. My mother wasn’t perfect, but I wouldn’t want anyone else for a mother. It’s sad when you don’t bond well with your parents.
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It’s a tragedy to never experience that bond with someone who gave you life.
I never felt a bond with my mother. First, the age difference - 40 years apart, when I was a teenager she could not relate to me in any way whatsoever and I could never talk to her or open up to her about anything. I lived in my own world, and there was no space in it for her. Decades later, I still feel nothing for her, everything about her either repulses or annoys me. Her ways of being, her personality - we just don’t mesh well, so it really is unfortunate when you are born to someone whom you have nothing in common with. I’m sure she feels the same way and is deeply saddened by her life’s outcome.
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My mother was a sadomasochist. I find some of her ways made their way into me and I do work to alleviate these traits.
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