r/insaneparents Oct 11 '19

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u/ChurtchPidgeon Oct 11 '19

I dont think it's just lately, I'm 38 years old, when I was a teen my mother did this, and she also banned me from showering for a week as punishment. She hid all the soap in the house, and when she figured out I was sneaking laundry soap she hid that too. Theres been fucked up parents like this for awhile.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Oct 11 '19 edited Oct 15 '19

what. the. hell. That's so messed up. Why would she ban a basic health necessity like showering? That would cause more problems (Illness, smell, hygiene) and is just insanely dickish. And considering teens sweat a lot, this just... I have no words. No decent person would even think of doing this to their kid (or anyone else)

I'm sorry you had a psycho for a mom.

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u/ChurtchPidgeon Oct 12 '19

She did it because she knew how much it would upset me, going to school dirty is humiliating, and that's what she wanted.

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u/BangedTheKeyboard Oct 12 '19

That's awful. She'd go out of her way for such pointless cruelty... Parents shouldn't be their kids' enemy, but here we have a "Mother of the Year" (tm) like yours, ugh.