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It feels like I can't share personal problems with parents because it just upsets them
1 month ago · 0 · parents, +1
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I love my parents but this is hard. They lead pretty happy lives and have lots of friends. I'm the opposite, always been miserable, prone to depression, very few friends. I've been making an effort to make more but it's not something that comes naturally.
But anyway it feels like whenever I share my problems with my parents, they definitely care, but it feels like I'm ruining their day. Like they had no worries but then I call and tell them I feel terrible and it just worries them, and they live so far away that I feel like it doesn't accomplish much and I'm just putting undue stress on them or trauma dumping. Like they'll keep calling me more frequently to check up, which I'm grateful for and more than many parents do, but eventually I feel obligated to just say "yeah I'm fine now" even though I'm not, just so they stop worrying.
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