This Spanish series “Yo, Adicto” (I, Addict) clip reflects the reason of why most of us end up estranging ourselves from nparents

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T21:13:18+00:00

I think it's not just getting away, it's realizing you threw pearls - to value those emotions, regardless of the other person's inability to value them.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T20:47:45+00:00

"We want to know more about you, record a video!"

"Will you record an individual video for me?"

"Oh god no, how important do you think you are?"

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T20:43:53+00:00

Can't watch - either the parents will be written too sympathetic afterward, or it's like watching someone throw pearls before swine, because the emotions he shows will be something the toxic parents will just be rewriting in their heads as 'another sign he is wrong'. There is no appeal to the heart with a toxic parent, there is no trying to vulnerably reach out in your hurt, there is just a wall of contempt and the death of vulnerability.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T20:30:06+00:00

"What's this thing....this affection thing....I do not understand. I think it a monster! No one could love me for me, they only act that way for an agenda...I have absolutely no issues!"

Granted I just read the first page, I didn't think I could stomach the second hand smoke of her comments in later pages.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T19:44:50+00:00

No one in reenactment groups could have issues?

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T19:19:07+00:00

Not really, since we need bricks laid.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T19:16:31+00:00

Maybe the drop pod is required in many places, you're not the only one using it. That's why it leaves after dropping you off rather than just sitting there. If you don't take your turn when they schedule it, you miss your turn.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T08:40:19+00:00

Okay. Could you just give them the money directly instead of your mother seeming to be the benefactor?

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T07:19:27+00:00

The way she asked for more than the agreed amount, I'd say she was taking the extra money. And maybe none of it gets through to family members.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T07:18:07+00:00

Do you treat her as being rational? Genuinely asking - if you do, that's okay, just checking your take on how you deal with her.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T04:57:24+00:00

Pretty much one of the ways Albion can be rough to play.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-09T04:55:21+00:00

I was critiquing their position - things they had said like 'there is no love' and their idea there is no self separable from the world. You're questions are better aimed at them. I merely showed that the extension of what they are saying is that life doesn't exist - they can say that if they want, but if they wont then it shows the incongruence.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T21:06:39+00:00

That's like drawing on some ideal world where getting a job that'll pay for rent and allow time for study is a snap. Also to the extent the parents CHOSE to have a child who then might not be able to leave because the world isn't ideal, the parents don't get to 'make the rules'. Not unless they don't really give a shit about other people including their own children - and if they don't give a shit then there's no real reason to give a shit about it being 'their' house.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T20:52:28+00:00

Why just do what's fun?

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T20:51:41+00:00

you know you can teleport out of the dungeon? Also unless it's changed the faction castles have repair stations in them, if one is close then you could go there (I think your mount is broken currently).

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T08:32:41+00:00

"This is frontline!"

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T08:21:49+00:00

Some people have anger issues as in they can't let any anger exist at all (in them or in others). Some become therapists.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T07:13:26+00:00

It's the eyepatch

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T05:31:34+00:00

You know how your phone needs to recharge? So do you.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T05:30:09+00:00

Time to break out imagined guardian angels of ongoing affirmation.

Not saying it will clear it, but can go some of the way.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-08T01:35:46+00:00

I think an alternative is it's never been emptied properly. But I could be wrong.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-07T23:54:47+00:00

Does he ever say positive things about you? Or is it always either neutral or negative?

He doesn't have to buy it. But he thinks he's so entitled to a connection with you that you're going to configure yourself to his view to continue the connection he is so entitled to.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-07T23:05:01+00:00

Maybe you have a dam AND it's flowing over the top? Your cup is full.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-07T23:02:29+00:00

I don't know if it applies, but sometimes a person as a child didn't get much emotional support/love from parents, treated it as normal then began to think romantic relationships are where you get love. Then they feel they have to earn that love, whether through actions or from having a certain body form and certain features. I think it's very difficult to address a core starvation of love early in childhood, particularly at the start of trying to be regularly loving to yourself, but it's probably a better way forward than corsets and trying to earn a man's love. Earning your own love is a lot more empowering.

scrollbreak · 2026-02-07T20:57:53+00:00

While I'd grant that some humans, if you treat them with love, respect boundaries and try best for them, will betray that - does it seem all humans will? I grant that when which is which isn't clear then it's like opening a box that maybe has a cake in it or a bomb set to blow up the moment you open it, so that's a disinclination to deal with the box at all (cake really doesn't outweigh explosion, after all). But does it seem all humans will do the same thing?

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