The internet is filled with things. Here is one of them.
The world of estranged parents' forums2024 Apr 8
I am blessed to have no estrangements in my family but boy do I love reading about them in other families via the joy that is internet gossip. Used to be just us dorks online back in the old days, but now that literally everyone is online, so with it comes those narcissistic parents who claim they don't understand why their children have stopped speaking to them. And apparently there's forums full of them, reassuring each other that their children are indeed selfish and that surely they themselves are not the problem. The trick is to remember that when they say "I just don't understand" it's codeword for "I refuse to understand" – the rhetorical refuge of assholes.
I am blessed to have no estrangements in my family but boy do I love reading about them in other families via the joy that is internet gossip. Used to be just us dorks online back in the old days, but now that literally everyone is online, so with it comes those narcissistic parents who claim they don't understand why their children have stopped speaking to them. And apparently there's forums full of them, reassuring each other that their children are indeed selfish and that surely they themselves are not the problem. The trick is to remember that when they say "I just don't understand" it's codeword for "I refuse to understand" – the rhetorical refuge of assholes.