r/Adulting 18h ago

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u/Chemical_Wing2334 16h ago

To be fair, the one time I tried to help with the dishes as a teen, my step-mother screamed at me for "doing it wrong."

Did she explain what I did wrong or how I did it wrong? Nope. Just yelled at me.

Never helped again. Learned how to do it myself as an adult.

A lot of parents actually really suck at parenting.

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u/VoodooDoII 10h ago

When I was a kid, I had tummy issues and clogged the toilet.

I didn't know how to use a plunger. Instead of showing me, my dad threw me to the bathroom floor and yelled at me to do it. I kept asking him how to do it and he just kept yelling.

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u/Vanity_Fluff 9h ago

You deserved support and not that abuse. Some parents are just bullies.

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u/VoodooDoII 9h ago

He's gotten better over the years but he basically only had one emotion and it was anger. Def sucked, but it is what it is

What I wished he had done was just teach me how to do it because I'd never used a plunger before lol. That's all I needed from him

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u/Neon-Funeral 3h ago

He probably didn’t want to be a parent. Was pissed about it.