What would you do if you have parents toxic like Beatrice and butterscotch horseman?
I happened to have parents that would take 20 sleeping pills try to “suicide” when things don’t go their way. Growing up, I realized where the low confidence, insecurity and pessimism are coming from. I’ve fought really hard to be happy and thanks to people that I’ve met in my life.
So I’m wondering, if any of you that watched the show grew up in a toxic family and how do you find your happiness? For me, it’s isolation and let go. It’s sad knowing that it would never be a family but you just can’t change people.
My parents were kind of like that. Better in some ways, worse in others.
What did I do? I moved 3,000 miles away from them and built a new life far far away from them. I got married and had a baby and by the time that baby was in elementary school, I had cut my parents off completely. I tried for the first few years of my child’s life to force ourselves into their life. I came to a point where I just stopped trying to force my parents to be grandparents to my child. My kid is 15 and doesn’t even know what they look like or sound like, and I’m really proud of that. Most importantly, we are happy.