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Truly though - What's more life-affirming than showing contempt for your parents' presumption to drag you from the void? It shows you've really weighed your options and decided to stay and bitch.
Adolescents and younger teens aren't really know for their introspection, I kind of give them a pass for saying that stuff at that stage in their life. At that age, lots of us learn how stupid something is only when we hear it coming out of our own mouths. It becomes really cringe though when they graduate into adulthood and they're still saying that or holding that opinion. At that point even their peers are given them the side eye or saying something like "dude, that doesn't fly anymore. Get your shit together".
Surely hope your child won't happen to be depressed or traumatized in some way. That would be really cringe after all. 😑
We're not talking about "in some way" here. The piece you're clearly responding to is my point we're talking about how some adults use how their parents treated them as children as a continuing excuse for inaction in adulthood. We're safe though. I have no children and won't be having any.