bad parenting

My mom did the opposite. She’d tell me to do chores, do all my homework, and read before I could play with friends. I’d regularly do everything, but about 50% of the time she’d change her mind and wouldn’t let me go play at the end of doing everything she asked. I’d end up crying in my room because I was so confused with the instability. She went undiagnosed with bi-polar depression, until I was 14, but as a kid I didn’t understand why she’d say one thing and do the opposite. I developed severe trust issues because of it and still have to work very hard to trust anyone today.

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