you expect me to feel gratitude? yes ma'am yes sir it's always "my child is a doctor" "my child is an engineer" oh will you shut the fuck up? it's never "my child is happy" "my child is living" "my child achieved their goals and dreams" you claim you "love" your child no matter what and yet your love is unconditional where strings are tied like a puppet and you love the helpless young soul in the version you want them to be "no one bothers you." oh please! i never tell you anything because you never acknowledge my feelings as a human being. and because of being forced into what you want them to be instead of happiness they are experiencing trauma dark thoughts feeling bad about themselves constantly masking thier pain and tears into happiness and the poor broken young soul never stopped loving its parents it stopped loving itself.