Toxic parents

Question

What’s your views on having a toxic parents? Giving you the silent treatment over smallest little things, always trying to meddle with your marriage problems etc. And while they are giving you the silent treatment, do you think you have the right to pull your children away from them since they are being toxic to you so you feel like they don’t have the right over your children? This may sound petty but we’ve been experiencing this throughout our 5 years of marriage and it’s mentally tiring. For me, my stance is clear, parents should not interfere in our marriage issue.

Anonymous · Answer

My mom and her side of family was toxic since I was young (verbally and physically), so I cut her side off completely when I started working (my parents are divorced). It’s been years now and I don’t regret a single bit. You were supposed to be the person to back me up, to support me, the one for me to confide so if you can’t do all those, at the very least don’t add on to my troubles. I don’t want my child to be in contact with toxic people, especially family members. No nonsense like I shouldn’t stop my child from getting love from grandma blabla.