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Do you believe that a parent is entitled to have contact with their adult child/children

or that they need to earn it?

After you’ve grown up and a shitty parent asks, pleads, demands your attention, do you give it?

Do you think oh, they gave me life, I should appreciate that and overlook the abuse/neglect/whatever because they thought they were doing their best?

Or do you say well damn, they should have educated themselves and done some introspection and some work so that they could have done better, and not caused me so much pain, and my life is better off without them in it, so they can just bugger off?
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Confined · 56-60, M
My middle brother has disowned us. We dont know why, and even wont tell his wife. He got everything he ever wanted.

But if parents were abusive and really did you wrong, then yes Id say ignore them. I hope you have told them why they do not deserve forgiveness.
Akimbo75 · 46-50, F
@Confined this isn’t about me exactly. my son refuses to talk to his father. I continue to get hate mail from my ex. But now that he’s 18, I no longer feel responsible for helping my ex gain access to his son.