Platitudes: Which Ones Make You Scream?

[Teddy]

'You're overtired go to bed.'

Ever since I was tiny, if ever I need to talk to my Mum about something this was always the answer. Copped it yesterday and I am 44. Obviously still don't know when I am overtired or not..... Problems are still there but obviously I got some sleep......

 

[Teddy]

Kim. Me thinks you and I have the same mother and the same family. Good on you for walking away. I am still in the cess pool of emotional abuse. If you don't need her then stay right where you are and all these great people can have more of her for themselves. they won't have to share her with you so lucky them.....

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[Kim]

My heart goes out to you Teddy.

After my divorce and against my better judgement she talked me into moving in with her. After a while she she told me that if I wanted to continue living there I would have to give up my kids to their father (an abusive alcoholic and her buddy). Apparently she expected me to do it to please her. Well I didn't. I told her that I wouldn't give up my kids for her or anyone else and that's when I walked away. If it hadn't been for that I'd probably still be in a relationship with her. In the long run moving in with her was both the biggest mistake of my life and the best thing that could have happened. I was finally able to walk away from her and put an end to the way she treated me. I can see now that I'm not the person she wanted me to believe I am. I don't second guess everything I say and do. At the same time I'm still living with it and that sucks.

 

[ms spock]

My heart goes out to you all! I am living without my family which is hard. My sister is having radiation. I haven't spoken to her for years and I am not going to - and DEFINITELY not my so called and alledged mother.(or father).

 

[KP the nut]

I hate

'Don't worry, it will be all right'

NO, No it won't

 

[ms spock]

No it is not all right! I hate that one too.

 

[SimplyComplex]

Mine are "only the good die young" which pisses my off beyond belief. Isn't it more a cynical statement that when someone dies young, people remember them with near hero status. I think its an insult to people who die young. People said it when my sister died, and I was like "WTF?"...maybe I was the world most cynical teenager...

And of course "what doesn't kill you only makes you stronger". well thats a pile of horse poo

 

[ruffdeal]

someone recently said to me

"all you have to do is own it and then just move on."

i wanted to say what if it owns you but i knew better than to try to continue the conversation.

 

[KP the nut]

A British one I think -

'It will all come out in the wash' :confused::mad::speechless:

 

[AngelaMarie]

Mine are "only the good die young" which pisses my off beyond belief.

My Grandfather died when he was 27 years old. My first love died at 16 in a car accident. My best friend died at 17, also in a car accident. Then my first love's best friend died when he was 20 in a car accident. That platitude pisses me off too. What I wouldn't do to have them back. I still miss them and it is over 20 years later.

 

[amy]

my father says to me ....." Whats wrong with you, other people manage to get on with things, why cant you?" GGGRRRRRRR.