Things my parents said to me when I was young that still get to me today
"Other kids have worse parents and care about them more."
"You are so stupid. Thank God, you look good. There might be a chance that a rich man will marry you someday."
"You will end up in the gutter and look back how good you have had it at home."
"You were just lucky. It won't last long" (when I made an achievement at school, etc.)
"I promise, I will kill you. Don't make me go to jail!"
"Stop crying. It only makes your father angry. "
"You are crying crocodile tears only because you want me to stop."
"Wipe that stupid look off your face. It only makes me want to hit you more."
"Pull yourself together!" (my mother while watching me trying to hide from my raging father in the bathroom, hyperventilating on the edge of the bathtub.)
"Did you use perfume? You smell like a whore. Do you want me to pour petrol over you if that is what makes you happy?" (my father when I was 12, before taking me to my first kid's dance party.)
"You don't know what a tough life is."
"Why can't you be different?"
"Other people pretend they care about you, but they don't."
"Go and apologize to your father so I won't get in trouble." (knowing, I've done nothing wrong and my father just had one of his fits)
"You think you have it tough. But nobody will care about / love you as much as we do."
