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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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updown2020 · 61-69, M
A parent can demand all they like but it’s up to the child if they want to connect. For all we know the child probably could not wait until they could legally get away and wanted to break free if that and maybe the parent is toxic and want to give there children that toxicity well no wonder why the child wants the parent to stay away . As an adult the child decides who they want in there life and that includes parents.