idk probably just really weird like everything else they’ve ever done for me. It’d be one of many grand sweeping gestures that just emphasizes how little they were actually willing to emotionally invest in me day to day. Like cool but could you have maybe just have not spent my entire childhood telling me I’m not good enough. Like I can practically hear my mother saying “well it doesn’t matter whether or not our kids are what we wanted it’s still our jobs as parents to sacrifice everything for them.” Like bitch just don’t then. I’d rather you just didn’t if it meant I could get away from your constant backhanded “love.” I’ve been passively suicidal since like 14 years old and have multiple thoughts of harming myself daily because of the way they raised me. I’ll just go on to the next life myself than keep dealing with them or let them keep trying to guilt me into being the person they wish I was, thank you very much.
If my dad did it, I wouldn’t be surprised, but I would be sad. If my mom did it, I would be very surprised, and I guess I would feel sort of sad, but more feeling sorry for her, not sad about her dying.
How would you feel if your parents died protecting your life?
I would feel obligated to live.
Even before my undying love for my children and the endless sacrifices I’m willing to commit to for them: purely for egoistic reasons I would take that bullet, because living with the pain of losing a child would keep me alive while suffering like nobody should ever suffer while being needed alive for your other children.
I would 100%. But I will add my opinion to this statement.
Taking a bullet ist such an extremely rare circumstance (especially if you live in a safe country) it will never ever happen in my life. It’s just a cheap statement to make yourself feel good. And I despise it when parents say it who I don’t feel make a good effort to support their kids in day to day life. Your kid does not benefit from a hypothetical life sacrifice. It benefits from your daily support, work and effort as a parent every day though.
Taking a bullet ist such an extremely rare circumstance (especially if you live in a safe country)
Me living in #'Murica rn 👀 (trigger-happy cops)
But I think it’s not meant to be literal, its more like: “Would you run into a burning building if you know your child is inside?”
Daily support doesn’t tell the whole picture.
You can love a pet with cuddling every day and makr sure they’re fed, but some people would just abandon them when push comes to shove, something happens and they save themselves before their pets… same logic can extend to human children.
I think it’s an interesting fantasy to entertain. But you have to be careful not to use it to compensate for feeling like a bad parent when you fail at more mundane but real ways to care for you kids. I only say this because anyone I have ever heard say this more than once, gave me the impression to be compensating for something. Because they were not really in the best of life circumstances with their family. I include my own parents in this, who often madw hypotheticals like this, but were and are never there for me when I actually need them. So I try not to boast about hypotheticals with my own kid.
But you do raise an interesting point with the abandonment of pets.
Taking a bullet is much easier than many challenges parents have to face, take on, bear or navigate for their children. A bullet, presumably, would be fast to suffer and/or die from.
Depends on where it hits, really. Some places you die instantly, others you’ll suffer then die, others you’ll become personally disabled/have your personality entirely changed, and sometimes you’ll be fine after the recovery
How would you feel if your parents died protecting your life.
Depends. If I was about to die a painless death, quite disappointed as that’s basically the life goal.
Otherwise, I don’t know, my father often says he wants to die, so sounds like success.Really, the situation would have to occur, there’s no other way to tell. I only know I’d be really sad if it happened to my dog.
Anytime. That’s what parents do.
My Boomer mom wouldn’t even show up to my sporting events. I feel taking a bullet isn’t in the cards.
Too bad. Some parents don’t deserve to be called parents.
Yes, but only for my favourite child. I couldn’t take the risk with the shit-head child in case the favourite child needed me to take a biullet later.
Omg
I wonder if me and my brother were both in grave danger, who would mom save first?
If she goes for my older brother, my soul is gonna die (if the situation doesn’t kill me dead already).
I really hope she’d save me first, I feel like I have a much deeper connection with mom than my brother ever has.
Although I wonder if she’d really save me.
I asked her about it like a month ago and she told me: “of course I would block bullets for you, you silly child” (I’m not even under 18 anymore lol)
Any parent who says no is a bad parent and a bad person.
I agree.
Yes. And, sad, but proud of their sacrifice.
