Let’s talk about mom and dad. Mom. I love you, and constantly you’ve denied that. You say I treat you badly. You tell me I always look at the negative sides of things. You do the same. I learned it from somewhere. You are sensitive to your needs. You’re not sensitive to my emotional needs. You say you understand but you don’t. You only understand my words through your interpretation. You don’t know it all. You tell me someone doesn’t want a girl who’s unhappy all the time, that is why my ex distanced himself from me. Don’t ever do that again. It is not ok for you to tell your daughter that she needs to fake her happiness in order to please a man and make him stay. How wrong that is. If I am sad, my loved one should support me and help me understand my sadness. I will not settle and be person who silences their needs and thoughts just to accommodate someone else’s. My sadness is a part of me and though no one is obligated to help me cope with it, I shouldn’t have to hide that current part of myself to make someone else comfortable. You’re asking me to suffer quietly. But the problem with that is quietly suffering means never dealing with what makes you suffer in the first place. Sooner or later your silent cries become screams. They’ve been bottled up for so long they explode. Mom I have only negative memories of you. I don’t know if I altered them but do not tell me I chose to alter my memories. I don’t want to be in pain by choice. My memories cause me pain. Mom, you’re good at being the victim. If you hurt us somehow you get the world to think you did nothing wrong. And that we did everything wrong. I’ve always been the bad guy right mom? You’re an angel. Capable of no evil. Right mom? When I was mean to you, you didn’t ask why you just cried about it. Why would I grow up hating my mother. Why didn’t you protect me. Why didn’t you ask for a reason. Why didn’t you try to help instead of arguing with me and making me feel awful. I would go to my room crying because I was offended by a joke you guys made. No one said sorry. It was my fault for being sensitive. It was just a get over it and come back out. So I did I got over it. But I never forgot it. Every joke you make about me being a bad daughter sticks to me. I will never forgive myself for what I did thanks to you. Even though you did wrong to you do not repent the way I do. I give myself the worst punishment. I have developed little to no self worth, that is my punishment. Is that what you wanted? To humble me? To make me feel like I did everything wrong so when I was an adult I would be so nice and change myself to accommodate others? I was a child, I was so young. And you made me feel like I was the devil. I was not smart enough to hate you for a good reason. I wish you would have asked why I lashed out. You said some mean things too and you deny them. You never let me deny let alone forget the things I said. That’s a little unfair isn’t it. When I told you I wanted to kill myself I remember you looking at me like I was crazy. Why didn’t you take care of me? And ask me why? Why I was so ready to die for a guy I met online. Tell me. Dad why were you absent. Dad, why did you cheat on mom and destroy her. Dad why did you treat the woman who loved you with so much carelesssness. Dad you are so selfish when it comes to our mother. I pray I never see your mistress and you together. If I do I won’t hold back. I’ll tell you that you’re disgusting for doing what you did and making my mother stand silent while you threw the nastiest tantrum I’ve ever seen. Mom made mistakes too. But all you could see was yourself and not the tired and lonely woman always at your side. To my parents who love me, I love you but you are not good for my mental health.