robotlyra:

lady-feral:

oftoxicparents:

Ways you can tell someone is from a ‘strict’ household on reddit. All of these are signs of abuse.

All of this.

For me, the revelation was this comic by Matt Groening from the Childhood is Hell collection

It was the part about “Never Tell Anyone What Goes On In This Family” that hit me. I got that EXACT LINE VERBATIM from my parents on several occasions. Back when I was little, I guess I considered it as “I suppose they just value privacy or something” but only in my later years did I realize how much it could be manipulated for ill intent.