Anyone here with children cut out a toxic family out of your life?
If so how did you “cope”?
Logically I know what’s best. I don’t want my daughter raised around fighting and dysfunction & I also don’t want to introduce her to grandparents and then remove them from her life but emotionally it makes me a bit sad to know she won’t have one set of grandparents.
A bit of a background: it’s my mother that’s the issue. We’ve had a long long life of not getting along. Since I was like 5 unfortunately and started really thinking for myself. Around 6 years old she told me she knew I was too good to be true. We tried church, we tried two different therapists but both basically told her she was the issue / had problems to work on and we never went back) Just tons of mental and emotional abuse and physical abuse too (she beat me / covered in bruises and punched me, hit me with a mop stick etc. til the day I turned 18 because she knew I’d call the cops). She allowed a pedophile who was a cop into my life and lied about the 8/9 year age gap (I was 15 at the time) to my dad. I can go on. But after working very very hard to let the past go (I’m now 27 moved out when I was 21) we still can’t even remotely be civil. I’m pretty sure she is bipolar along with some other things but not diagnosed. Point being, we argue (which if she’s in my life we always will) but what’s worse is she’ll then insult me and hang up. There’s no solving arguments like adults and I cant be the only one trying here especially when this relationship benefits me in no way. I was just trying for the sake of my brothers, dad, and future daughter but after one bad argument today I’ve realized this isn’t working and not something I want my daughter around to ever witness.
Achieve your health goals from period to parenting.