Realized even though my parents did the best they could, they don’t have the tools and access to knowledge we now got, specially how to deal with their own issues. Luckily there’s no narcissist in my immediate family.
Without going to a rant about how this all effected me and feed my resentment I’ve realised I have to be the parent to myself that I needed growing up and even now at 34.
I’m 40, and if I could, I would go back and parent myself as a teenager, and life coach myself through my 20s and 30s.
I think about that a lot, and use it as a reminder that I can only change the present and future, and try my best to make my 40s my best decade yet.