My parents lives taught me ALOT!
Never put MY child down.
NEVER "NOT" say I LOVE YOU DAILY.
Never try and speak ANYTHING but the truth!

your childhood affects your adult life...

but you can choose how to be in relationships
that's the great thing about being an adult.
you don't have to deal with the bull you had to put up with as a child....

just my 2 cents....

my parents were devoced by the time i was 3

spent most of my chield hood with my grand parents
if im half the man my granddad was im doin alright in life

my fauther is a drunk and a woman beater will NEVER put my family thro that all he ever did was break promises i will not let that happen to my son

I think so, my parents courted for 8 years and were married for 52 years before my mother passed. They were totally devoted to each other. They are down to earth, common sense, giving, loving, peaceful, non-judgemental people.
If I could have a relationship even remotely close to the one they had, I would be over the moon.
And that is why I don't settle for anything less than someone who could match that in my world.

It's nice to hear that!

I'll take your 2 cents, cause I like it! tyvm!

Sorry about your mothers passing. They sound wonderful!

Eeek!

I was adopted into a family that didn't show love or any other emotions and it was a strange way to grow up. To go to friends houses and see how their moms would smile and be friendly to everyone made it hard to go home knowing what was there. It made me a very emotional person that sometimes doesn't know how to express my feelings to someone else. I think I keep a lot bottled up inside. This may be the reason why no relationship has ever worked for me. I wasn't shown love growing up and perhaps I doubt anyone else's love. I am not a jealous person, it may be more of an insecurity.

Sorry Jonny
I experienced some of that ages 4-9 in foster care. Never felt like I belonged.

none my parents divorced when I was 5

Lmao, bet mine could out do yours lmao Hell we put the D in Disfunctional lmao

If you think you had it bad, my mom married my uncle after getting divorced. Talking about keeping it in the family.

it greatly influenced me...i had/have the greatest parents...they were young my mom 14, my dad 16 when they had me, they got married the same year..my dad was/is an awesome dad, supportive, loving, sincere, and just an amazing man. my mom was the kinda woman who never showed defeat, even when things were hard, she was smart, and always had a smile on her face and hug for ya. my parents made sure i knew i was loved. and i think thats made me who i am as a person in a lot of ways.

I thought you bid us farewell
welcome lad for the nth time

thanks to my therapist I can now avoid taking personal responsibility for the screwed up choices I made in life and blame it all on my parents.....except when things go right, then I take all the credit for that.

If you get a good one I believe in the therapists
I am the result of such therapy but before anyone says anything about me at how I am now, let me reply to them you didn't know me before so if I see improvement that is enough for me

It didn't influence me because I was so different from the rest of my family that my friends all think I was adopted or something. It influenced my brothers greatly tho... they are as screwed so badly it's scary. If you ask them though they think I am the one who is screwed up. Then again, if I am the screwed up one I'd rather be that than be like them unfortunately.

I learned and acquired way more good qualities from my screwed up family than bad.