How honest are you really with your parents?

This might be a little long but I’m curious to know how honest everyone is with their parents?

For me, I have to be very careful in my honesty with my folks, specifically my mom.

I learned at a very young age that my mom does not handle unpleasant truths well.

Example: I was maybe 5 or 6 when it was a random day when everyone was home (parents and older brother). Everyone was perfectly happy to do our own thing that day but my mom wanted to go for a walk to do bird watching. None of us wanted to go but she really pushed for it until we finally agreed to go with her.

It was miserable. None of us wanted to go so we weren’t invested in the bird watching- even on a good day my brother and I weren’t really into watching birds (I mean we were 5ish and 8ish... not interested in the where is Waldo of birds tbh) so mom kept getting mad we weren’t ‘doing anything’.

Finally we started heading home and my mom says ‘see that wasn’t so bad was it?? You all had fun right!??’ And I, the honest 5ish old that I was, said ‘actually mom, we only went to make you happy.. you made us go. No one likes it the way you do’.

I got yelled at for being ‘a selfish bitch’ who ‘doesn’t appreciate family time’.

My mom has a history too of asking very loaded and uncomfortable questions like she’ll complain about her parents, saying they stress her out and that she feels like she can never be truthful with them and then asks me ‘you’re not like that with me right? I don’t stress you out right? You don’t complain about me to people right?’ And she’s being dead serious😬

My mom is in fact a very stressful person.. I do love her dearly and she truly means well but she can be tough to be with.

Anyway today we were talking about Father’s Day plans and once again in our conversation I had to sort of dance around the truth to give her an answer that is honest but also not at all..

Idk maybe I’m a terrible daughter but I’ve learned that this is the best way to handle her and so it got Me thinking how you all handle honesty with your parents.

This was munch longer than I thought this would be 😂 if you stuck it out- thank you!

I look forward to peoples stories🤟🏼