1) We talk lots about how much parents love their children & not enough about how much children love their parents regardless of the kind of parenting they got. Too many people I know have killed their dreams, freedom & individuality to make a parent happy without complaining.

2) The sad part is that the child's love is not even acknowledged by parents sometimes. Because by being a parent and bringing up a kid they did the ultimate act of sacrifice. Nothing the kid can do can ever equal that. The kid's love can never match up.

3) Imagine that. Pure, unadulterated, unconditional love can't match the love of parents just because parents are automatically on a higher plane than children, even if they have been the most horrible controlling and toxic parents. Parenthood >>>>>

4) I mean no disrespect to parents but I read a thread where people are narrating the most painful words said to them, and a surprising number of the comments AND the most hurtful comments were made by parents. And the kids are hurting from it years later.

5) People carry hurts inflicted by parents well into adulthood++. They sabotage their lives and self esteem, and when they start realising why and healing themselves, instead of blaming the parents, they try to empathise and see that parents were also coping with their own shit.

6) This thread is just to celebrate kids who love their toxic parents, kids who try to understand their parents and do a great job of coping with the toxicity and even breaking out of it, healing and transmuting it in ways only children know how.