What is the most heartbreaking thing a parent has ever told you?

I have told people this story about my mom and they seem to think it's pretty heartbreaking but I was beyond caring at that point. I was 13 at the time and was coming dinner and trying right get laundry done.

My mother had awoken from what ever drug she was using to escape herself and the mental issues were at full tilt. She got me as I was crossing the living room with a basket.

I did not know at the time she had brought a gun into the house. She stopped me in front of my brother and sister right there at pulled the gun out and right into my forehead. Not near, pressed up with the barrel ring kissing my brow.

She preceded to tell me that if i hadn't been born her life would be amazing and why didn't I just die in the womb and stop all of their lives being awful. She said "I want them but not you, why do you have to be alive".

I asked her to pull the trigger or move since I had to do the laundry. She fell on the floor and cried and later I hid the gun after putting my brother and sister to bed.

I'm know some part of me felt that but so many things happened in that period of time that it loses meaning in individual instances. I'm sure the PTSD is a testament to this.

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