How Can I Honor My Toxic Parents?
The Patrick Madrid Show
Relevant Radio
4.8 • 587 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Samantha tells Patrick that her parents' behavior has turned her off from the Catholic Church. How can she honor her parents when it's a toxic relationship?
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning, Samantha. |
| 0:01.1 | My question is about my relationship with my parents. |
| 0:04.8 | Okay. |
| 0:05.8 | As far as honoring, I feel that our relationship is toxic and it's become toxic since I've |
| 0:13.0 | grown away from them or separated from them a little bit, set boundaries, I should say. |
| 0:19.8 | I feel like I'm growing as a person and my relationship with my husband is better and my |
| 0:25.7 | work relationship's been better. |
| 0:27.4 | That's good. |
| 0:28.2 | But I know that I'm hurting them in the process. |
| 0:32.4 | So where does honoring your... |
| 0:36.9 | Because I'm not as close with them as I used to be, and I know it hurts them, and |
| 0:44.3 | the less I'm with them, the less I want to be with them. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.3 | It's not just me, my other sister is having a hard time with them as well. |
| 0:55.4 | I have one sister who's a little bit more dependent on them, and she still kind of puts up with |
| 1:01.3 | them, so to speak. |
| 1:02.3 | But I don't know where I draw the line. |
| 1:07.3 | What is honoring your parents? |
| 1:09.4 | Am I sitting? |
| 1:12.9 | I don't think so, no. |
| 1:14.6 | Because remember that to honor your father and mother, it takes different forms, and sometimes |
| 1:19.7 | it can be financial. |
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