What do you do when your family created a false image of you?

My whole life I never felt love from my parents and the older I got the more tumultuous it became. I’m married and live kind of far from them to give forced distance/boundaries. But over the past year and half since being pregnant it’s gotten more hostile especially with my dad he’s always been my biggest anti supporter. My parents have created this horrible image that pretty much from the moment I could talk I would tell these wild stories to purposely manipulate and upset them instead of me being a normal kid wanting attention. My mom never really liked holding me or affection she’d literally push me away and say “get off” but this was never a problem with my 2 younger sisters. I might have believed I was this horrible manipulative person if it weren’t for all of my extended family stepping in and trying to make up for what I wasn’t getting from my parents but whenever they tried to intervene and tell my parents how they weren’t being fair in their treatment of me compared to my sisters but every time they tried to help it made it worse for me. But now as an adult every time I see them my dad purposely tries to get under my skin by making rude “jokes” at my expense and telling weird not true stories about me trying to make me sound horrible. He honestly believes these stories is the wild part. Like last visit he told my husband I was a devil worshipper that wrote chants on my walls because of my devil music. I listened to evanescence and fly leaf I was emo and watched horror films but that’s it! When I was 17 I was trying to be more positive so I wrote on my wall “I will live life to the fullest every day” in pink and painted a tree literally that’s it I even had pictures of me in my room showing my wall and nothing remotely devil can be construed out of that so I don’t know I just know that he hated that I was emo when my high school bully through a full Gatorade bottle at my head when they drove by me walking home my dad said it was my fault for asking for it being dressed like that. So I feel like being emo just equaled devil to him? Idk but I’m tired of the emotional/mental torture. Am I right to want to step away from my family or am I being to sensitive?
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Cut them off, going no contact with my parents was the best decision i ever made for myself the freedom is worth everything

@Presleigh I have felt like my life is a lot better and stress free away from them. I’ve just been low contact but more even that feels too taxing

I went low contact for a while but every communication was exhausting, dont give them the opportunity to insult you , i blocked them on everything and lived my best life without their input and its the best thing ive ever done

@Presleigh thank you this helps ease my guilt quite a bit

I’ve felt this way growing up never feeling loved emotionally, physically whatever. Same my dad anti supporter too. Im so sorry this happened to you! I would say set boundaries with people so they can’t walk over you or control you whatever you don’t like

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