Toxic Parents Novels & Stories

"Keep going to therapy. Keep fixing what's broken. Because I need to be better regardless of whether she accepts me." "Good answer." Dr. Reeves made a note. "Let's talk about your father. You've mentioned him repeatedly but we haven't gone deep. Today we're going deep." The session was brutal. Two hours of dissecting every toxic lesson my father had taught me. Every moment he'd praised cruelty and punished kindness. Every time he'd reinforced that Alphas ruled through fear instead of respect. Every instance where he'd mocked vulnerability and rewarded dominance. By the end I was exhausted and raw and understanding exactly how much damage one parent could inflict.

“But at the end of the day, you’re a bad son. Why would you keep her away from your family?” “You’re speaking like you don’t know how your wife and daughter behave. They don’t like Kimberly. They won’t like her offspring either.” “They behave like kids sometimes, but they certainly won’t harm her. She’s a baby.” I guess that was true. Despite how much they hated and mocked Kimberly, they never physically harmed her either, but that didn’t mean they weren’t toxic though. Even if they wouldn’t hurt her physically, their words could do so. “When did you find out about her? Or did you know Kimberly was pregnant when she left?”

“She is not part of this family! Why are you obsessed with her?” Her parents joined in immediately, their tone sharp, judgmental. “You’re not thinking clearly, Father. Surely you don’t intend to give your shares to… that worthless bitch?”

Liliana explained, “After that, and even more so after our marriage, all my feelings for my father dried up. I still held hope after I left. But after our marriage, I simply got tired.” “When I had kids, all leftover feeling, hope, and desire I held towards my father dried up over time. I could lie to myself, but as a mother, I wanted my kids to love themselves more.” “A toxic relationship is a toxic relationship. There is no way around it.” “One should not bear with it just because you share the same DNA. I wanted Li and Kyle, especially Jo, to know that.” Jonathan held her close and, once again, thanked the heavens for blessing him with her as his wife.

“So let’s change the subject from mates. What about your friend got you all worked up and distracted?” “Okay, soo… their parents are total fucking abusive drink the kool-aid cult assholes,” I growled, thinking about how they treated Leo before we moved and what they’ve told me since. “I don’t think they’ve ever physically hurt Leo, but I know they’ve psychologically abused them.”

RYAN The only thing that has kept me going for years is alcohol and weed. My parents tried everything to stop me from taking them. I laughed at their fake concern. They were the reason I started taking those in the first place. They are shit. The worst parents one can ever ask for. All they ever care about is themselves, reputation and power.

" she said before I hung up. There is no way in this fucking earth I will go to that devil's spawn wedding. No way in this life. Not after what their father did to me. That man ruined my life, and my mother watched all of it happen while taking her husband's side. She blamed me for everything her husband ever did. It was always my fault, never his. I hate that family so much. I could never have anything to do with that family, especially now that I'm about to be a mother. That is a whole lot of toxic shit that I don't need around my child and me. I could feel the tears gathering up in my eyes, ready to spill, so I got up and went to my room to take a shower.

I was fond of calling him just to rant about our parents. “Yes, there’s trouble.” Tristan’s tone became serious. “What’s going on?” “It’s about Mum and Dad and this thing they always do to other companies.” I rolled my eyes as I talked about it. They’ve been doing it for a while and it wasn’t fair on the other companies. Tristian listened attentively as I told him about the whole situation. He already knew about my parent’s toxic competitive nature but this time it was different. It had something to do with the family of the girl I liked.

"He never really loved me, but when I was a child, I had the illusion that a father would always love their child. I started to realize that he was using me to hurt my mother. Somewhere in that sick little mind of his, he took pleasure in seeing her suffer. I'll never understand that. But I understood that he didn't love me, and I cut him out of my life. It hurt, but it hurt more to see my mother suffer." "Hmpf..." Henry expressed his displeasure. "We're taught to romanticize family." "Exactly. And sometimes we stay trapped in a toxic family that adds nothing good to our lives simply because the social and moral concept instilled in us is so strong that we force ourselves to endure everythin

He chuckled bitterly and looked at Faith, Mateo, and Kai. “You know, what? Our parents were awful. My father was,” he paused and looked at Mateo, “And your mother was,” he said to him before he looked at Faith, “So was your mother,” he pointed his gun at her, “We all are byproducts of selfish and greedy parents! Was my mother all innocent? Hell no! She abandoned Kai for fuck sake because she found him hard to raise.” Jeremy’s eyes were already filled with tears. “And you know what? We all are going to be even awful parents. The Ricci and Bianchi clans, yeah – they are ruining so many lives.”