[patanu102]

[frawgs]

and then god was like let’s not give this bitch a break

[behaved]

“are you ok?” lol fuck no

[dicketysplit]

my entire academic career

[teenagerposts]

me: I should have done this earlier

me: [sweats nervously]

[teamrocketing]

*takes a break from doing nothing* ah i really deserved this

[artistofthemillennium-deactivat]

“Pokémom”

[onawhirlwind]

Britney omg why

[cloudfreed]

this is the birthday party she just threw for her kids

i am FASCINATED by how Britney is so supportive and excited about their interest in Pokemon even though I have absolutely no doubt she is utterly confused by Pokemon

[sodomymcscurvylegs]

Honestly, Britney Spears seems like an excellent mom.

[jin-hikari-deactivated20170429]

[stay-myheartbeatsforlove]

I remember her taking pre-algebra classes to understand her sons’ homework

[leyla35-deactivated20180706]

I have no self of steam

[blog-sev-deactivated20191224]

Into The Spider-Verse Has One Negative Review

Let’s see.

[ichiban-kasugas]

#HappyBirthdayTwoTimesSuperBowlPerformingBruno

[donuuthole]

what boys must think of me

[teenagerposts]

stop scrolling for a surprise

[flowerinaflame]

[undercitytwerkteam]

things that are good, in no particular order:

animals with markings that look like eyebrows

animals with markings that look like socks

[imsoofuckingsad-deactivated2018]

it hurts but whatever

[sunsounds]

“I don’t do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.”

— Allen Ginsberg, The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (via wordsnquotes)

[twitterlols]

[aproductofyourdeception]

Or future 😭

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

hot take: moms need to learn how to listen to and comfort their daughters without making everything about their own traumas

[real-pcys-deactivated20190118]

a classic example

daughter: hey this thing you do bothers me very much and i wish you wouldn’t do it

mom: well my parents abused me and im not even as bad as they were and i had to sit through it so you gotta sit through whatever i do to you too

[daeranilen]

a common variant

mom: well i’m having a really hard time right now and you know that i’m doing my best and that i didn’t mean to hurt you ergo you are in fact the asshole for asking me to consider your feelings and change my behavior during this hard hard time i’m having

[lierdumoa]

This is a very important post about how to recognize problematic behavior in narcissistic mothers. It is also something we all need to watch out for in ourselves, especially if we were raised by a narcissistic parent.

Because if that’s what you’re used to, you can grow up wrongly believing that this is what sympathy is supposed to sound like.

I have, numerous times, talked about having a bad day, and had a well-meaning acquaintance tell me how much worse their day was, honestly believing that they were being sympathetic – that telling me how much worse their day was would somehow make me feel relieved, or grateful, that my day wasn’t as bad as theirs.

Of course, it did not make me feel better. It made me feel like my experiences were being trivialized, and like my feelings were being invalidated.

I know these people weren’t trying to be cruel. They truly just didn’t know better. They thought they were empathizing.

If you didn’t grow up learning what genuine sympathy looks/sounds/feels like, it’s hard to know how to show genuine sympathy for other people, even when you really do care about them.