Sucks not being able to look up to your parents

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I’m 26f, and I’ve honestly always felt like this. I always could tell they weren’t putting their full potential into things, extremely petty and emotionally weak. They procrastinate badly, I didn’t get an actual door to my room til I was about 15. It’s not like we didn’t have the money or time, it just wasn’t done. When I look at my parents, I don’t feel confident in asking them for advice at all, not even relationship advice since they’re divorced now. All my parents did was show me what not to do, but I guess if that’s the worst they’ve done to me then I should feel blessed…

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  1. Jensenlver Avatar

    Parents are just people who had relations that resulted in a child. It doesn’t make them special, smart, worthy, sober, responsible, wise, warm, respectful, amazing ect. Just people. Like every bad driver, every rude stranger, every dumb question, most everyone can be a parent and it doesn’t make them suddenly better. Unfortunately lol.

    Learn what you can from the world and be a better person, someone worth looking up to ☺️