I know we don’t like to hurt our parents’ feelings, but they deserve to know how much they influenced your love life as an adult. I don’t know what it is about some adults that makes them think that their kids don’t absorb their behavior. When you grow up in a toxic family like that, often times people avoid marriage altogether or they experience toxic marriages themselves because it’s “normal” to them. I’m sure your parents just want to be happy, but they cannot deny their role in this... and it’s not up to you to pretend as if their behavior didn’t affect you. We all learn lessons until the day we leave this earth, and this is one of those tough lessons that your parents have to deal with.