How did your parents fuck you up?

Not my parents but my Auntie and Grandad... They spent from about the age of 7-11 trying to turn me and my sister against our parents, the other side of my family and family friends, and then wondered why I decided I didn't want to see them anymore (after years of lies, emotional abuse and trying to turn me against anyone that cared about me). I haven't been in contact with them for 11 years but they still turn up at my house occasionally just for an argument and to try and convince me that they only said (and still say) these things because they 'love' me. They constantly lied and confused me as a child and made me feel that people didn't care about me and I find it so hard to trust people now because I think if my own grandad and auntie are capable of saying the things they said because they 'loved' me, why would anyone else be anyone different. I am getting there with trusting people but it does take more time for me to build friendships and relationships because I worry that people lie when they tell me they care about me, they don't actually like me, or they will build my trust and then leave me. I have a couple of people in my life that I completely trust, they have always been there for me and supported me through everything but I find it extremely hard trusting new people and letting them into my life.

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