I've been insulted, but the worse thing ever told to me was by my father. For some context, my father lies alot, pretends to have mental health issues that vary depending on whatever circumstances suit them, and has threatened suicide on several occasions for attention. While those are issues that should be taken seriously for most, my father is not one of them. Anyway...
So I was 17, 18, and my father and I went to a diner. They were talking about their new girlfriend, they had been dating a few months. They were talking about their 'struggles' and how Abby, my dad's new very young girlfriend, was wonderful. Dad is going on and on about how they were thankful for Abby because a few weeks prior, they drove to Niagara falls, where my father was going to commit suicide. Whether that actually happened.... I doubt it, but they sat there for hours, and they stood on the edge of a cliff when they started thinking about Abby. About how wonderful she was, and how much she needed my dad, and how they loved her, and couldn't inflict trauma of their suicide on Abby. Thinking of Abby and their relationship and their potential future saved his life and they were so grateful. And I'm like okay well glad that this person you've known for 3 months is the reason that you decided not to jump off a cliff instead of you know your kid but whatever🙄. I knew at this point that the story was bulls**t, it's just the lack of awareness that still astounds me at times
So I was 17, 18, and my father and I went to a diner. They were talking about their new girlfriend, they had been dating a few months. They were talking about their 'struggles' and how Abby, my dad's new very young girlfriend, was wonderful. Dad is going on and on about how they were thankful for Abby because a few weeks prior, they drove to Niagara falls, where my father was going to commit suicide. Whether that actually happened.... I doubt it, but they sat there for hours, and they stood on the edge of a cliff when they started thinking about Abby. About how wonderful she was, and how much she needed my dad, and how they loved her, and couldn't inflict trauma of their suicide on Abby. Thinking of Abby and their relationship and their potential future saved his life and they were so grateful. And I'm like okay well glad that this person you've known for 3 months is the reason that you decided not to jump off a cliff instead of you know your kid but whatever🙄. I knew at this point that the story was bulls**t, it's just the lack of awareness that still astounds me at times