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Does one need parents in their life?

I've got a father who is continually judgmental and also, possibly bi-polar without taking any medication or seeing any psychiatrist. My mother is better, but also sensitive and too overly-cautious (sometimes, even too negative).

They have good hearts, but as parents, it seems like they are not good. They help me with financial issues when they arise, but it feels like one of those abusive relationships, ya know? Where there are too many mental issues clouding what the emotions are.

I guess I am trying to ask is if do I have to be in touch with them for the rest of their lives? I am the only child and I know what I am asking, I'm just frustrated and feeling like every time I am around them, I am not my best self.
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ajsk13 · 51-55, M
the main purpose of parents is to keep you alive,safe, teach you to have a moral compass and how to be a good person in life ,have they accomplished those task?
LysanderFremont · 36-40, M
My mom taught me about having a moral compass and being a good person in life. Safe? Probably not if you account growing up with a half-brother who tortures you, assaults you, and attempts to cut your thumb off because he asked which one would you not miss the most.

And I am alive but more so my own doing.