“Trapped Under the Chopper: 40 Adults Reveal the Dark Truths of Growing Up with Helicopter Parents”
Neither of us was allowed to go to college but I went against moms wishes and every visit home from it was her trying to break me down, telling me I was born a failure and needed her to “survive”. Then my job was never good enough, or people I dated. Even food I brought to holidays she would treat as if it was garbage. During white elephant at Christmas she stole a gift from me because I expressed that I liked it then made sure everyone saw she threw it away right after. And yes we weren’t allowed privacy as kids no visiting friends no locked doors, no phone or internet even for school because she didn’t believe we needed the internet to write papers. Regularly called names like idiot, a*****e, loser. Regularly hit or woken up at 3am to be screamed at because she was in a mood.
Spoiler alert when you treat your kids like that no one will be left to even bury you.
#27
So Im a 38 yr old mother of 5, (4 children and an angel) on my 2nd marriage that should have been my first and I went no- contact with my parents in may 2019 after many strained years of trying to work on things and them not working out.
The real deal breakers include: My mom still talks to my abusive ex husband and hangs out with him and his wife at their home with our 2 children. My ex husband makes waaayyyyyy more money than I do and he conned his way into getting me to pay him child support by faking a whole situation with CPS. Yet, she’d rather me be with him than the situation I’m in now, where I’m happy and my husband actually loves me and cares about all our children equally and is the perfect dad and perfect husband for me. She was kicked out of the delivery room when I was birthing my first child with my now- husband. She attacked my now-husband and his mother and me and our 6 week old first born in our home and broke a door frame in the rental house we were living in. (She was arrested for this incident and we had a restraining order in place for 5 years and dropped it at 6 months) She attacked my ex husband before he was my husband at my sister’s home. She turned my sister against me.
