Parents

[Jazz]

I love my mum, she is most wonderful person in the world to me but she suffers bad with her mental health so as a result she is always very paranoid, over emotional and tends to guilt trip me constantly which makes it hard to communicate and bond with her fully.

I live with my dad, and I love my dad but I get on with him practically, not emotionally. He can't talk emotionally because of past childhood problems, I can only have a meaningful discussion with him if its related to cars or if he has something to complain about.

I get on with them both, but its difficult sometimes

[Prosiary]

Generally I do get on with them quite well, but there are obviously times where they really wind me up as with most people and their parents.

This is me with my dad, we have "banter" but he winds me up then he laughs and acts like he's innocent, love him really

[geo]

i get on with both my mum and dad, but i don't have the bond with either of them where i can talk about my feelings and stuff. they're not there for emotionally, as much as they like to say they would be. i know because when i've been to them for a bit of support, they've either shut me off, ignored it totally or have got mad at me (like my mum got mad at me for being sad before)

i used to argue a lot with my mum, she'd just really wind me up and never seemed to want to give me space. but now i'm going out more (just so she thinks i'm a little bit social) she's backed off a bit.

oh, the gay thing is v. awkward with my mum. she wasn't / isn't exactly pleasant about it

[=Lizzy]

mum is cool she does everything for myself and my sisters. being a single mum since i was born was tough for her but shes managed to give us the best she can.

my dad. lets not even go there

[Jssy]

My thread haha, most people know I don't, but kind of do with my dad.

My mum put me through abuse as a child which I won't fully go into but I got taken off her by social services escorted by the police. They literally didn't take any notice of my mum just grabbed everything out of my bedroom and walked straight past her with me. I lived with family members but my grandad became seriously ill so I came back to my mum. I even left a flat my dad bought me when I was 17 because I believed she loved me. She called me constantly saying she'd change and I'd wake up to 40 or 50 voice mails.

She has mental health issues but won't seek help, I'm only allowed to wash my hair once a week at a set time and she will spend hours scrubbing the sink when I've done. Was actually on Skype to Matt and Jazz othernight and I put on deodrant and she went mad she was shouting at me for hours and she ran a bath (used to make me scrub my skin in the bath with pan scourers when I was younger), stripped my sheets and scrubbed surfaces in my room. I also got a college interview and offered a place yesterday, she rang college today to say I'm not going now after I was out with my support worker!

I've had mental health illnesses in the past such as depression and bullimia and she made them worse, when I had an eating disorder she chucked everything in the bin which were the only things I could manage to eat. I am now going into a homeless hostel next week as my support advisor said the abuse can't continue as its affecting my health too.

My dad doesn't really want to know, he says I'm an adult now that I'm 18 and should get the council to house me. My dad is a lot better than my mum but he won't have me because of his new girlfriend. Whenever I ask to see him he's always with his girlfriends elder children so I feel I don't really have parents. As soon as I move to Manchester and get out of Yorkshire for Uni, I don't plan to return. I need to set up my own life away from my mum. The damage from my childhood has scarred me. Sometimes emotional abuse is a hell of a lot worse than physical abuse.

[Gina]

aww some of these replies make me sad
im not too bad with my parents like i get on well with my mum and dad mainly because we all dont speak much lmao my mum can be really nice and understands me but i cant speak to her about many personal things or whatever so i just keep it to myself or tell @FlyingJesus; lmao tom you can be my mum l; but my mum can be really nice and can joke about with her and stuff so its fabb
we NEVER argue because theres nothing to argue about really lmao me and my sister just say that mums right no matter what so even when shes wrong she has to be right haha just how it works

my dad i get along with too i dont think we've ever actually argued
i used to see him every two weeks but i wouldnt speak to him much because he wouldnt be allowed out of his bedroom due to him being ill but we'd have a good like 10min catchup before id have to leave his room and we'd speak at the dinner table if he hadnt fallen asleep in his food
recently ive been talking to him more when i see him but i see him not as often and probably once a month/every two months for a few hours but when i see him we have decent convos until he starts thinking things
the last time i visited him though he said something which idk even though hes my dad it puts me off seeing him so often until hes able to get somewhat better

my stepdad i used to really like when i was 7 and we got on so well cos he was literally like a child but now im getting older hes trying to please me and my sister and doing more innapropriate jokes and things which EVERYONE would see and unacceptable but he doesnt and because of that hes just got ruder and idk worse lmao i wouldnt say i hate him but at the same time i dont particularly like him
but i also have no choice but to get on with him lmao if i ignore him he starts up a huuuuuge argument which is not got
about two weeks ago i went past and he was rude so i ignored him and he got mad and that set off loaaaads of arguments which resulted him calling the police on a v close family member and we also now have social workers involved lmao

at the same time though am v lucky for that fact me n my mum n dad all dont argue with eachother unlike other people
if my mum said to me no you cant have this
i know not to make a big deal out of it and so no arguments start lmao we have no reason to start arguments so its quite peaceful with them

[Metric1]

Always got on with mom, recently started getting on with my dad.

[e5]

My parents still together, get on with them great and their support is amazing in everything

[Matt]

I've always got on well with my mum and I don't know what would happen without her. She's actually amazing. My dad, I used to argue with him all the time and we had some pretty serious screaming matches but now I don't really talk to him enough to argue with him. I get on fine with both of them as I do the right things and don't do much to annoy them (golden child).

[IzzyUhh]

ermm I do get on with them but there is times I don't and it's mainly due to arguing and other crap, used to be really close to my dad but then now I can't really think who I get on better cos I argue equally with both.. sorta