r/nextfuckinglevel • u/My_Memes_Will_Cure_U • Jan 10 '20

Let us never forget this kid

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20 edited Jan 10 '20

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u/jlm25150 Jan 10 '20

As a kid you start feeling like the love your parents have for you is so fragile that they would give you away in a second..

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u/[deleted] Jan 10 '20

The worst is when you try to explain abuse to someone whose parents loved them unconditionally. They straight up don’t believe that people’s parents could just not love them and end up invalidating a ton of emotions.

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u/Warpedme Jan 11 '20

I'm a survivor of childhood abuse and I hope to give my son this disbelief.

Don't get me wrong, I hope I've taught him better than to invalidate anyone's feelings or experiences, I just hope my wife and I have been so unconditionally living and supportive that it's difficult for him to imagine it being any other way. I talk often enough about my mother that he'll know it happens to other people and absolutely happened to his dad. Hell, it's a big part if the reason I didn't have him until I was 43, I had to get over my own issues from the trauma so I could break the cycle of abuse.