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btw, the "virginity is a social construct" thing is true, Click. you gotta think about what they're saying there. it's not so much that the word has no meaning - it does. it's that the concept should have no meaning, because there should be no special value attached to the concept of having sex for the first time. it's saying it's not something that should have so much value to us given that it is, indeed, merely a social construct.

The dad who compared the LGBT community to Nazis kind of proves why pride month is so important. The fact that there are plenty of people who react so violently to our community shows that we still have a lot of work we need to do to be viewed as human beings who deserve equal treatment.

Your videos on r/InsaneParents were actually what made me realize that my parents were abusive, terrible people and helped me make the decision to move out and break up contact with them. My mental health has improved insanely through these videos. You're doing gods work with how sweet, kind and supportive you've been on your channel, Click!

My mom keeps threatening separating me and my siblings too, for political reasons and me being transgender. Hearing "don't talk to my kids" "I don't want you corrupting my kids" is such a hurtful thing to hear. ESPECIALLY when for about 5 years of their most formative, she was not there. My siblings mean so much to me. No parent should decide on their children's relationships.

The mom essentially being like "You're right and I'm wrong, therefore you are disrespectful" is all too real. I hate how so many parents (mine included) think like that.

That woman talking about her daughter's shoes was clearly just looking for sn excuse to take everything from her daughter

You should look into toxic boy moms. They’re moms who raise their sons to be the type of partner they want and also show clear favoritism between their son and their daughters. It’s really creepy and weird

I remember being literally brought to tears at the age of 7 by a manipulative aunt. All I told her was that she laughs a lot, which was true, and it was one of my favourite things about her. I never meant it as an insult, but even if I HAD, her actions that followed was inexcusable. She told me that because I hurt her feelings she would never laugh or even smile ever again. I was a 7 year old autistic child, the thought of someone never ever being happy ever again and being responsible for it was nothing short of mental torture. I cried and cried for what felt like literal hours and she kept insisting that she would never laugh again and it would all be my fault. To make it even worse, tons of people were around and nobody thought to step in. It scarred me for life.

My relationship with my mom was so bad that, one time, she called me a liar and I snapped and said "yes, I am, and a very good one, wanna know why? To defend muself from you". She cried, and it was horrible for days. Eventually she started going to therapy and was able to confront her own traumas and how that reflected on her parenting. Right now our relationship is amazing, thank all the gods

The 21 year old guy who's mother kept taking his stuff to "force" him to focus on school and work could actually take her to court for theft. Even your own parent cannot take your belongings if you are an adult. Found this out when I talked to police. Told me if my mom ever tried to do anything like that again, to call 911 immediately. The police actually recognized my mom's behavior as abusive. So glad I moved out and away from her.

Fun Animal Fact: There's an abandoned minefield that has accidentally created a penguin sanctuary! The mines keep poachers out, but the penguins are too small to set them off! The mines were set on the Falkland Islands when Argentinian commandos occupied the territory in a 1982 conflict with British forces. Since then, Magellanic penguins have thrived in the area. And because the areas are well-marked and fenced off, no civilian has been injured by the mines, either.

I had a friend who wasn't allowed to have a bedroom door, just so the parents could know what they was doing at any given time. Oh yeah, he also had to leave the bathroom door open when he went for a shit, never did get an explaination for that one... The day he moved out of his parents house, the parents called the cops and claimed he was running away.. The guy was 23 and had a job (so he went to work every day) and had just got his own flat (apartment to the american folks) The cops arrived, the mom made some big song and dance about her baby running away.. Then the cops spoke to my mate, who explained what was actually going on. The cop asked him if he wanted to laod all his stuff (was just clothes, some cd's and his pc) into the trunk of the cop car, they would give him a lift to his flat. The moms face was priceless, i swear she nearly had a heart attack.

The "emotional incest" dynamic seems all too common in wedding mother in law stories, especially when they wear a wedding dress to their son's wedding

Insane parents are temporary issue, Emotional Support Demon's support is forever :3

Honestly, if you want to troll people who get mad over pronouns, just use the wrong pronouns for them and when they protest look them dead in the eye and say "I'm so sick of this pronoun garbage and am very disappointed that you would bring it up."

My mother was just like these narcissistic parents from Insane Parents. When I was 14, she put me on a diet, even though the doc told her that I was healthy and normal for my age and height. I ended up in the hospital sick AF and she told the docs that all she knew was I hadn't been eating right lately, etc. I was so severely dehydrated that the doc couldn't get an IV in my arm, so it was put in the top of my foot. That was just one of the MANY things this woman did, not to mention the mental and emotional abuse.

As a German myself I always find it entertaining but also insanely sobering how some people (mostly outside Europe) use the the term Nazi to describe practically anything/anyone they do not like. They never have a good grasp on what a Nazi actually is and the history behind the term. Rough understanding maybe but that's where it stops. Being just around 30 years old doesn't connect me closely to the history anymore but my peers and I still have a basic respect for it and you don't just use the term interchangeably for any other slur. On that note, Nazis threw anyone who did not fit their bill into camps back in the day. That included political opponents, disabled people, people with different sexual orientations and of course people of different religious believes. Nobody was really save but they had it out for the Jewish people specifically because they were painted as the Feindbild (enemy) that people could just push all of the negativity on.

The "gay nazis" one: It's highly disturbing to me that a grown adult can't see the difference between being FORCED to wear sth singling you out as subhuman by a murderous regime, and DECIDING to wear a symbolic token of pride in your identity. This is so far out there, I can't even.

I swear, this subreddit went from "Huh, my parents could be on here" to "Holy hell, I thought *I* had it bad" and that is good for me that my home life improved, but concerning for the mental health of my fellow internet peeps.

24:53 I do hope that the OP took these screenshots and sent them to whichever parent this aunt is the sibling of. Including the -offer- the _repayment for_ what was actually _a gift._ Because if any sibling of _my_ parents had pulled something like this, _my entire extended family would hear about it,_ and that aunt would be raked over the coals for it.

The aunt one really fried my brain cells. Hun..no one put a weapon to your head and forced you to buy concert tickets..They didn't use you for shit.

Dirty shoes is a reason to isolate your child and take their life away? It's a trap. You just needed a reason to control your kid.

daaamn. i hate that people always forget that lgbtq people were targeted and killed in the holocaust. i feel like screaming it from the rooftops. if i hear one more person say 'lgbt are not and have never been persecuted or enslaved uwu' imma LOSE IT omg

Yeah that mum who was being emotionally incestuous is insane. Its one thing to recognise that parents are adults who have feelings, etc, but the whole "you left me to be with *her* you cheater" vibes gives me the ick

The Aunt Julie one sounds almost exactly like a text conversation I had with my sister before I stopped speaking to her. I was super careful to be as level headed as possible and be kind to her and she accused me of being a bad parent and making veiled threats about CPS because I supposedly wouldn't get my kid help. Keep in mind this was all happening while I was driving him to a therapy appointment.

I will never understand how much parents overuse the word "disrespect." They take anything their child does or says as "disrespect". Even my mom overuses it

A note on gay nazis: I had a best friend for years who slowly but surely fell into just about every conspiracy theory she could. When I came out as queer she was iffy, and when I started questioning my gender, she got near catatonic. Cut to two years after I hopped the fence away from her and I'm hanging out with a person who used to be a mutual friend and who I hadn't seen in ages. I asked if they knew what she had been up to lately (they're trans too so I wanted to make sure she wasn't around them" and they asked if she finally came out as a lesbian. I then had to be like ",,,, no she's a nazi" and they went "o h" and that was that lmao

30:57 The school jacket was designed by the students (I paused to read the image) to include a small Pride flag on the left shoulder and our Aboriginal flag on the right. Nobody forced anything it was literally the students themselves 😆 Also well done to my very southern neighbours in Melbourne!

When I was 15, I was put in a psychiatric ward because I was actively trying to unalive myself. The psychiatrists and behavioral health workers were very surprised (and some of them were very judgmental) that my mother wouldn’t look through my phone, my journals, or my drawers to make sure I wasn’t doing or writing anything untoward. Coincidently my mother and I have a very strong and open relationship 5 years later.

Privacy is literally a human right and these people act like human rights dont exsist period

There are horrible camps parents send their children to that are like boot camp for kids. Paris Hilton went to one and talks about the horrible experience. They actually kidnapped her from her bedroom (her parents signed off on it). Breaks my heart how many there are and how many kids are subjected to that trauma

Ngl, watching all of clicks insane parents videos have helped me a lot. He gives a lot of sound advice (specifically that it's not worth dealing with these types of people), and he is genuinely a funny person doing so, even if he's talking on a hard topic. He's respectful, and is the type of person I strive to be. As someone that can't afford therapy right now, these videos are a second best. Just, thank you to the click.

"if it were so easy, no reasonable person would hit their children." CONGRATS! YOU GOT IT! 😅

I’m an autistic 18 year old, and I got my own bank account just before my birthday. My mother has access to it, but fortunately, she is not financially abusive like some of the “mothers” in this video. She lets me know if she takes money out (she pays my bills for me, and will transfer money to other family member’s accounts from her own phone if mine isn’t on me so that I can pay them back if need be). I’m not great at stuff like this, so I’m thankful that she helps me with it. In some cases, like mine, joint bank accounts between child and parent are necessary and/or useful, but if you’re being taken advantage of, please don’t hesitate to stand up for yourself and ask for help. You aren’t weak or foolish for needing to do so. Just because a person may have raised you does not mean they are entitled to everything you own or other stuff in the same vein. You are an individual, you can make your own choices. Don’t let them tell you otherwise.

That story early in the video about OP opening a new bank account separate from their mom and moving their money over to it really resonates with me. I'd say my favorite detail is how the Mom immediately assumes that OP just spent all the money on something. The thought of OP having opened another bank account didn't even cross her mind. She has so little faith in her own child that she can only assume that OP is just being wildly irresponsible and blowing all of their savings money on something. Absolutely insane parent.

My mom is very guilty of gaslighting. The most recent case of this is me asking to bleach my hair (it's very dark and I've tried and failed to dye it because it's too dark) she was very excited about the idea claiming it would make me more like my classmates. Planned this for months, I saved up the money to get it done at the hairdresser and two days before the appointment a family friend my age bleached her hair. My mom freaked out saying she always knew this was a bad idea and they she never trusted me/I'm just trying to copy family friend. She also used me getting my hair done as an excuse to be transphobic because "real trans men aren't girly like that and you're just a lot more feminine than *kid of her co-worker who is trans but in his 20's and able to hormonally transition*"

As someone who works in tech support, it’s “nice” to see that my entitled customers treat their families the same way they treat me and my coworkers.

Honestly this subreddit reminds me that no matter how many times my family and I get into squabbles, it could always get so much worse.

"you leave me all alone all scared" fuck,this is so relatable to me,my mom always insists that i go out but once i actually leave and go outside,usually to visit my sisters,shes always so "sad" about it. The fact that shes so afraid of her kids going away from her is so.. weird to me. Shouldve raised us better,mom. Actually,shouldve just raised us,not ignore us all your life :(

at 23:52 : Minnetonka is a Native American name, the "Insane Aunt" is calling the OP an "indian giver" which is an incredibly racist way of saying that someone is likely to regift something you get them as a gift because they don't properly appreciate gifts

That woman freaking out about a scuff on cheap tennis shoes triggered me, she’s talking about all the things she’s going to impose on this poor child and my heart just deflated at the thought of how that little girl feels when her mother rails at her, and she can’t understand why, or what to do to fix it. 😢

I don’t know why, but the post about the unreasonable aunt calling OP a “user” and saying they “used her” and continuing to just be the personification of a conversational brick wall really got under my skin and made me visibly angry. It’s like the damn wallet scene with Patrick and Man-Ray from SpongeBob.

my family had a saying, "Choose your battles" it kinda means choose the things you are going to actually get upset and use energy towards.

This helicopter parenting thing will never work. Going through your kids stuff creates good liars. That’s 100% true I come from a separated family. I lived with my mom one week and my dad another week. My life was like that from age of 9 to 13. My mom is a gentle parent. Not going through my stuff. Only going through my pockets before she does laundry. My dad was the opposite. A strict helicopter dad who once didn’t even let me take my phone to school. He went through my stuff and even threw away a lot of my toys without asking me or forcing me to say yes. Because of this I’m still very secretive and can hide stuff very well. I never told anything to my dad because I knew that it was gonna create a fight. Now that I have lived only with my mom like over 5 years, I’m finally coming out of my cage and I’ve been doing just fine. I tell my mom a lot about my stuff. When I turned eighteen I even told her how I drank alcohol and smoke and vaped. She didn’t like it but she was happy that I trusted to tell her. I believe if I ever would have told my dad even when I was already 18, he would have made it about him and disrespecting him. Ps. I don’t drink anymore and am slowly stopping smoking. I don’t vape anymore either. Only problem is the smoking cigarettes. (If you wanted to know ☠️☠️)

Emotional incest: my mother got jealous every time my boyfriend brought me flowers, repeatedly demanded we break up because "you never spend time with me anymore!!" and would do everything she could to cut into our time together. She also assumed we were sleeping together anytime we were alone for 5 minutes... we didn't lose our virginities to each other until we married. Then we ended up staying with her while our home was being fixed and she would pound on the door whenever it was closed... we were NEWLYWEDS why do you think the door is closed???

The statement "virginity is a social construct" mostly refers to all the shit we believe surrounding virginity. Yes, you can be someone who's never had sex before, but that doesn't mean anything about you, your body, your future, your morals, etc. Which is where the social construct aspect comes in. The hyping of virginity is what they're talking about. edit: Also there are people who believe you can return your virginity, like people who believe baptism makes you a virgin again or that you can "repair" the hymen or some crazy ass shit, so yeah. Most aspects of virginity are social constructs. The only thing that isn't is the strictest definition of "people who haven't had sex" - which in itself can be dependent on what exactly we're defining as "sex". Like, is someone still a virgin if they are a lesbian and does it with her girlfriend? Because a lot of people would say no. What about oral pleasure? Again, a lot of people would be like "depends" and/or "the receiver is but not the giver".

The constantly invading your kid's privacy actually makes them better at lying is so true. I'm such a liar/not honest comunicator when it comes to my parents bc I go literal years before telling them stuff if I ever tell it to them. Like when my friend confessed to me I waited over 4 yrs before telling them bc they would have FLIPPED

32:10 Swasdicka.

If I had an aunt or cousin call me a bitch after nothing like that aunt did, my family would DESCEND on them. Wtf? A grown adult calling a 20 year old a bitch for no reason? Disgusting.

The idea of virginity is a construct to say that one is "pure" vs "unpure". Its not so much about physical aspects for many people

2:29 there is a video out there of an interviewer telling the Beatles that people think their haircuts are un-American. The Beatles respond with “those people are very observant, because we aren’t American. “

The "emotional incest" mother reminds me sooooo much of my ex-boyfriend's mother. It was incredibly messed up.

From my stand point as an aunt, it feels absolutely wild to me that you could act that way to your niece or nephew. I love my niece and nephews and spoil them to death. I couldn't picture going crazy like that on any of them. It's all so wild to me.

I had to slap my hand on my mouth when I saw the lgbt swastika. I was laughing so hard I nearly spat my wine out.

I was a teen drug addict. I got clean at 18. I went to rehab and then worked a 12 step program. My councilor gave me a 4th step workbook the 4th step is when you put all the wrongs and embarrassing stuff on paper with the idea that it's often our guilt over these things that makes us use. I was working on it. My mother went onto my room and found my work book which said 4th step workbook on the cover. She read my 4th step then used the things in it to belittle me and embarrass me. I got upset and told her that is my 4th step. It's part of the program I'm working on to stay sober. She acted like she had no idea that was what it was. It said so on the cover and even gave instructions on how to do it. I was so upset I relapsed and had to start all over again. Clean for decades now thankfully.

That aunt has lost it. My brain literally lagged trying to understand what her problem was, or how it was a problem in the first place.

I remember having a conversation with my late brother-in-law about the "benefits" of full grown adults hitting children. My opinion was, and still is, that the biggest thing children take away from the experience of being hit by an adult is this, if you're a grown-up, then it's ok to hit people who are smaller, weaker, and have little to no power. Let's hope that when these kids grow up, none of them carry that appalling notion into any romantic relationships, or into their possible future as a parent.

Sad to say the crusty attitude towards lgbtq+ representation is quite prevalent in Australia. The number of 'mature aged' adults complaining about the inclusive signage on a single high school's optional item of uniform is bizarre. Kids don't have to wear it, parents don't have to buy it, kids don't have to be gay or Aboriginal to wear it, and nobody is being discriminated against because a high school added this option to it's uniform offering.

This is actually really helpful. I’m currently 18 and had the misfortune of letting (read: having no choice in) my mom set up my bank account for the most part. Our household is physically and emotionally abusive and rn I’m trying to work with my sisters to gain some personal freedom. This has helped give me the courage to follow through on some plans

"MICKY MOUSE IS SHANKING MINORITIES?!" Took me out. Absolutely cackling. I couldn't breathe.

Lowkey want to start up a "boot camp for 13 year olds". I'll ask for a $200/week fee for each camper, whatever I can get to exploit these insane parents. And all we'd do is just hang out, watch movies, whatever.

"Oh my fricking- ASS BALLS" -The Click, 2023 ( 31:50 )

As a queer person, that "gay nazis" thing just had me dying laughing cause how in the nine circles of hell does someone manage to be that far gone-

33:00 i refuse to believe this is real now 😭

Insane Aunt must be the type that loves doing favors and giving gifts to others, because it will allow her to use it as leverage for emotional blackmail later. And now she's furious with OP because now she can't pull that tactic on them.

A lot of these things remind me of what my former father put us through when my mom finally decided to divorce. He refused to sign the papers for a very long time, posted how happy he was with his new woman (victim) only a month after the divorce, and later refused to pay alimony and conflated a text message with the divorce agreement, in other words threatened our financial safety and gasslighted my mom, to get photo albums that weren't even his. Yes, she sued his ass. P.S. I don't contact him anymore, but I heard he got back on Facebook after several years never using it just to post about how "crazy" and "abusive" his ex is, and still complains about her to this day.

My girlfriend’s contact names for her family are landlord, founding father, and origin story, she also has me saved as “annoying but kinda cute” meanwhile I have her saved as “my lovely”

32:54 unfortunately this is sort of true financially.

Fun Fact: The laws in Canada under the Consumer Protection Act make it illegal to put expiry dates on gift cards. Just another way in which Canada is great.

Insane Parents Dictionary Disrespect: Being correct Rude: Being correct Feel free to replace these words for your own sanity 😀

13:30 this is literally the exact way my mum tries to reason I'm 20. No mum, you DON'T need to search through my stuff to check if I left a candle burning

The emotionally abusive aunt (Julie) must be my ex’s long lost and never-revealed sister. Thank Heavens I’ve been out of that relationship for nine years now. Except for the first few years of the 16 years the relationship lasted, he’d always gaslight me with every gift he gave me. How our daughter came out of it as a fully functional, emotionally balanced individual is nothing short of a miracle. Probably because the relationship ended while she was still very young. Videos like this one are immensely validating for both her and me. They also serve as a reminder never to get embroiled in something similar. Thank goodness we’re both in healthy relationships.

Aunt Julie wanted OP to be "indebted" to her because she got the gift OP wanted, so she could use OP later. But life threw a monkey wrench into the plan and Aunt Julie is mad that she lost that "indebted" angle and there forth decides OP did it on purpose. And does everything in her power to make that narrative the truth: but OP is not playing to her tune. Best to cut Aunt Julie out and stonewall her since she's just going to use this as a way to manipulate into getting what she wants. OP shouldn't accept gifts from her anyone.

I was raised in a lot of weird emotional incest type stuff. My mom talked to me about hers and Dad's marriage problems like I was one of her "girlfriends" (as straight women joke about), starting from the time I was 12. In my tween/early teen years, I think my dad realized my mom was really manipulative because he started refusing to listen to anything she had to say -- in fact he'd listen to me, the oldest child and "daughter" (I'm actually nonbinary), better than he would my mom. Of course my mom then manipulated *me* to be her mouthpiece to hopefully get my dad to do what she wanted, but then she also got jealous of me because I was closer to my dad than she was...like wtf smh And my dad would sometimes talk to me in a way/about more mature "life things" and family dynamics that I feel like he should've been talking about to my mom. Growing up I was always in between not just my parents and my siblings, but also in between my parents' marriage. And I always felt like I was a "second parent" to my siblings (half parent, half sibling). And for *further* context to explain things that also complicated my situation, my parents were both mentally/emotionally/psychologically and physically abusive (with my dad being more physically abusive and my mom being much more into the mind games aspect CLEARLY). And my parents joined a Christian fundamentalist cult when I was 6, and that made them even more abusive. My childhood was hell basically, is what I'm saying. Honestly, the first 24 years of my life were hell (I'm 26). Edit: Because a lot of people have asked, last I heard, 3 of my siblings are still living with my parents and are in the cult. My sister recently married someone in the cult (he was actually my ex-husband's brother, and I got married at 19 and left him at 22), so she's still there but not with my parents. My brother got out, burned all the bridges between the entire family and wants nothing to do with any of us anymore, and the feeling is mutual even on my end because we had a horrible relationship and I think its end is for the best. I hope he's doing well though, gets therapy, and finds peace. I tried keeping in contact with my family, but had to cut contact in December 2021 because I just couldn't do it anymore. (When you are triggered into suicidal ideation after being reminded of them on a holiday, without ANY interaction with them whatsoever, yeah it's a toxic relationship.) There was literally no benefit to me to keeping them in my life, and relationships are supposed to be mutual. If you're in a relationship that only and always makes you feel bad, it's not good for you, and you're not in a relationship, you're their punching bag. And you deserve better.

Hey Click and fellow viewers. I just thought I would share my insane parent story thats actually occuring just this recently. When I was 12, I was attacked by a dog owned by a family down the street from where I lived. My best friend's parents were the owners, and thry tried to sue me and my family because I "trespassed" on their property even though my friend invited me over. There was a huge legal battle that lasted for about 5 years, and a verdict was established that I would get a very large settlement due to my trauma and medical costs, etc. However, the money was to be placed into an account at a certain company and not be touched until I turned 25 of age, or unless the court was petitioned to take out some amounts as long as it benefitted me. Now that I turned 25 back in June, I had to go through a process of figuring out the account number to gain access to it because my mother had the documents in a place that wasn't safe from floods and water damage. After figuring all that out, I called the company to ask them about access, and they told me that since my mother was the owner of the account, she had to be the one to make the changes. She was only the owner because I was a minor and couldn't have the funds myself. I let her know that she needed to change it, and after a while of waiting, she told me she didn't want to give me access to the account. She insisted that it was because she didn't want me to use it on a house that I didn't own or wasn't on the deed for (because it's my boyfriend's house that he bought with his own loan) and that she believed it was in my best interest if I just didn't use it. That is MY money that she is keeping away from me, and it can be used for so many things that would benefit me more in the future, but she isn't letting me have it even though it's rightfully mine. According to her, she's doing it because she cares about me and wants me to make good life choices. I also think that since my boyfriend is pushing me to get this money that's mine, she believes he's trying to claim it for himself, which is not the case. He could care less about the money I'm getting and just wants me to have what is supposed to be mine this whole time. (He even makes more money than me and wants me to save it all until we can build a house together that both of our names would be on, so I don't see an issue) anyway, I'm going to be taking legal action against the company that the account is under and force them to change it over since she isn't complying. In the court documents, it specifically states that at the age of 18 (when I turned an adult, so earlier than 25) all funds were to belong to me. She has no right to keep it from me, even though she says it's because she doesn't want me to lose it all on bad investments. She's treating me like a child, and I will not stand for it at all. Thank you for reading all of this.

It's official. I'm playing these videos to my kid when she tries the "you're a terrible parent" schtick when I ground her or hold her responsible as a teenager.

the conversation about “gay nazis” made me cry with laughter there’s no way ppl like that exist 😭

My mom learned the hard way to listen when I point out very specific drawers that she should not go through in my room while we're cleaning. On another note, I have since learned how to better hide my naughty toys.

The one about the shoes, the mother is having totally unreasonably high expectations for Walmart shoes. I lived in situations where I could only get shoes from Walmart, and I was lucky if those shoes lasted me a year at most.

My God, that aunt one REALLY made my blood boil. The hell was she trying to achieve? OP paid her back! They apologized! They took responsibility! And the aunt wouldn't shut the hell up about OP being a "user" like, Jesus Christ, the hell did the aunt want??

My family started to say that anything they've given me or gifted me aren't mine. That it's theirs, never mine never will be mine. I'm sorry that I'm a 16 y.o. without a single cent to my name :/ These kinds of people are really horrible and I just hate it all here already. It makes me feel shitty when someone says that they wish they had my parent.

I once heard a quote from Bill Murray that went something like this (paraphrasing): "It's hard to win an argument with a smart person but its nearly impossible to win an argument with a stupid person." This video just reminds me of that.

When I was still married my mother in law actually had a fit when my husband, who had been away for an extended period of time and was going to be home for a limited amount of time and let her know he was going to divide his time at her place and at home with me. She called me saying “That’s my son and it’s been a long time since I’ve seen him.” I told her, “I understand, He’s my husband and I haven’t seen him either.” Unbelievable

13:18 I definately did not listen to this part many times to remind myself that my "guardian" going through my stuff, taking my stuff, removing the door handles on my bathroom and bedroom, demanding all of my passwords and my credit card number, is not ok. It isnt ok right? its been happening since i was 7 along with being yelled at constantly i now have a phobia of people being behind me without me knowing and tend to always sit against a wall in order to see if anyone approaches. have a nice day!

I believe the emotional incest appeared on another video a while back about a woman's concerns about her fiance and his mother, and that the incest won in the end. No matter how hard she tried that creepy "bond" couldn't be broken and she was thinking about (or had left in an update?) the marriage. It was an extremely creepy story.

Well, until this video, i never knew my mom was emotional incest. It’s actually disturbing. My mom wonders why i keep myself isolated and cancel plans with my friends, she constantly checks up on me when I’m with my friends. She does this by constantly calling me, constantly asking how long ill be, and saying how much she misses me and how she can’t live without me. When i suggest a time to come back, she would rip into me and say that i care about my friends more than her, and then proceeds to bodyshame/say nasty things about them. I’m too scared to leave the house without a reason now..

The funny thing is the man who went on a rant about "Gay Nazis" would be the kind of person to elect a nazi because he doesn't actually know what one is LOL

My mom gets crazy about my hair. She thinks it has to be a certain length or it might look socially bad on her become my hair isn't a 'normal' length. I'm 26, pay for all of my hair care products and don't want a length considered normal. Last time she cut it, she screamed and yelled until I caved in. I cried really hard.

My parents used to hit me a lot as a kid, mostly my dad. I was a very emotional child, and when I told him my concerns recently, he said he thought my crying was manipulative. I was 5 years old with no other way to express my disappointment when he was upset with me. What was I supposed to do? Anyways, a conversation came up at dinner one night about how my dad doesn't like acronyms because he can't tell what they stand for. I brought up stuff I remembered from AP Psych (ASD, ADHD, PTSD, MDD, GAD, etc.), and he said the best cure was to get over yourself. Maybe even a nice spanking will do the trick. I calmly explained that studies show spankings make children more aggressive. My parents both pointed at me and said "But you're not aggressive," to which I responded "Because the spankings made me too scared to be aggressive," and I dropped the conversation. Next day, Dad and I are watching $100,000 Dollar Pyramid, and one of the clues was Miley Cyrus. Dad jokes about how Billy Ray Cyrus should have given her a good spank as a kid so she didn't end up so foolish now. I couldn't even argue because my words would fall on deaf ears. Even now that I've studied this stuff, he still won't listen. I don't want to treat my kids that way, and I agree with that flow chart 100%.

this subreddit inspires me to talk to my parents and thank them.

these videos always make me realize how grateful i am for the fact my parents are reasonable good people

7:27 The only damage to those shoes is a flyaway strand in the laces. A. Freaking. Flyaway. That mom (if you can call her that) is going to get one hell of a wake up call when her daughter moves to Cali permanently to escape her BS.

Lady is pressed that the tennis shoes she bought her kid fell apart when she paid $50 _TOTAL_ for _several_ pairs of shoes. Bish, what d'you expect from dollar store quality?? 🤡

My dad's parents' hurt me deeply while I was living with them, in short it included threats of physical ab*se, regular s*xual ab*se from my dad's father, daily verbal ab*se, daily emotional ab*se, and gaslighting. It's oddly comforting to know there are other people who know how I feel and have still come on top.

29:00 - PITA means Pain In The Arse

14:15 I use Google to hide my search history. My parents hate Google so they don't look at it. They also track my search history on microsoft edge so no way in hell am I searching up anything but my sock addiction on there.

Being extremely strict just teaches kids to be even craftier

stay hydrated folks! cant overthrow the patriarchy dehydrated

33:07 because he gives away free stuff, like his Dutch brother Sinterklaas? Well, that's a new one for me.😳🤣🤣🤣🤣

5:42 wow. Being supported and complimented by a random internet user MORE THAN YOUR OWN MOTHER is both blessed and sad. My mother always tells me “you’ll always be welcome in this house and I’ll always love you” So I forget that shit like that exists and I feel bad.