Re: How many don't like their parents?

hmmmm, my issue with my folks are somewhat different, but yeah I don't particularly like my mother. It sounds like you are holding on to resentment, whereas I am not feeling particularly angry at my mother, but I have no connection with her which would compel me to work with her to create a relationship of any kind. We don't talk. I just don't like who she is as a person, so how to have a relationship with someone with whom you have no affinity for, feel nothing in common with and whose traits get on your nerves? So I simply don't. My dad is swell though...

Holding onto resentment and anger is something different. I've wondered, if you despise them, does that mean you love them beneath and are angry because of the betrayal of that love? I don't know that answer to that, but I think it may be true for many people who, once they get over the anger, find room to love. Do you just not like them but you love them beneath? Or you don't like or love them and have no relationship at all? Hrmmmm, thought I had something to say about this but maybe I don't because I don't know how much commonality there is between our situations, but in answer to your question anyway, no I do not like my mother. Tweet