[Serious]How did you parents psychologically damage you? Were you able to recover or are you still working through it?

They made small jokes and playfully teased me when I admitted to having a crush on a certain girl when I was 8.

How could they know that the result of those jokes would be my inability to open up about mostly anything for all those years, afraid my feelings would be used to tease me.

My love life is a complete mystery to them, and of the 4 relationships I had, I made only one of them official to them. Two of those I broke up because I felt unable to make the take the next step, that involved meeting each other parents and such.

They ask me about stuff like this, but I would sound pathetic if I just said "Well, you messed up really 14 years ago"...

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