*UPDATE* I despise everyone including my husband, sister, parents and kids

I’m really confused about all this fanfare around and enabling of abandoning young children? The woman sounds like an absolute raving narcissist and honestly i think the level of mental gymnastics provided in the responses gassing her up to go for it are quite telling. It’s a sad indictment of the quite serious consequences life lived through the prism of social media is having on individuals and society as a whole.

The children are very young even now at the point of end game in an incredibly toxic situation, by all evidence a far more toxic situation than the mother herself lived but you’re all “GO GIRL GO LIVE YO BEST LIFE BAE” Behave yourselves. She is hugely responsible for the toxic environment her children are being abused in because make no mistake the sort of home we have an insight into is abusive by her own admission and grievances. Any good mother (or father for that matter) would be taking her children with her. This idea that because, culturally men have been enabled to engage in this sort of damaging behaviour that equality is somehow served by women being encouraged to do the same? Goodness me how low we aim….

Would you not be interested to speak to the children and ask them how they feel about their mother and why? How does she behave? How does she speak to them? I have very little doubt in my mind that she has told them in no uncertain terms that she never wanted them and they are the bane of her life. Her writing drips with it. Do any of you have a grasp of the developmental impact that level of rejection from a child’s mother has on them?

Honestly all of you should be utterly ashamed of yourselves for the support you’re showing here. Yes her strict religious upbringing was shit, she was a long-standing victim within that dynamic but guess what? Her story is ten a penny and there’s many such stories who’s own narratives don’t lead to where this lady has arrived. She had choices and she made them whatever and why ever. The second you have a child you are second place until that child is an adult. You don’t like it? Tough fucking shit. Don’t have the kid. Take. Responsibility. Life isn’t a fun fair and neither is it meant to be. When did we get this idea that existence was a big jolly? As if it’s all about us. 8 billion people with main character syndrome is about as close to a guaranteed disaster as one can get I think.

Let’s be real. The children are now the primary victims. She and her husband brought them into this world regardless of the context and situation. The oldest child is thirteen. The others are nine and ten years old for crying out loud and it’s “oh they said a hateful king so damn right girl you’re well within your rights to abandon them”? Barely a thought for them or what they’ve been through from the vast majority of you. I genuinely believe the advice I’m seeing is despicable to give in this situation. I am absolutely fascinated to know if any of you espousing this advice are parents and I’d be even more interested in seeing how you parent…

I’ll say it again. You should hang your heads in shame. Appalling behaviour and I sincerely hope those of you who don’t have kids never do and those of you that do? That they escape the shadows you cast and find a way to shine.

I was feeling really upbeat and hopeful about the future for the global situation and humanity in general. Deludedly so because this has brought me right back to reality.!

/r/confessions Thread