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How can I interact with a parent that never respects my boundaries or listens to me?

Very good question.

Now, my little disclaimer statement here, I'm going to say that I'm going to give the benefit of doubt to all the parents of you guys out here in the room.

I'm not trying to demonize any parents.

I'm not trying to say that parents are bad.

But this is a very good question because you know what parents are?

They're people too.

Right?

Any of you guys ever hear your parents say, hey, I'm just trying to figure this out. Like, you know, parenting don't come, like, with a handbook.

You don't have to, like, take a test before you become a parent, right?

It might be a good idea, though, but, like, you know, there's, like, nothing that you have to,

like, you just kind of have to figure it out as you're going on.

But some parents, usually if they have a difficulty with boundaries, that means they have some sort of fears, some sort of worries, or something

from their past that's lurking. And I'm assuming you don't have to show hands, but I'm assuming

you guys know a little bit about your parents' background. Some of them may have been through

some pretty bad traumas. I know some parents that have lost kids, like the kids have passed

away and died. So some of those parents, they freak out in some situations that they don't know where

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