10 tips for coping with dysfunctional, alcoholic, or toxic parents

How to survive a difficult parent

1. Stay calm. When a horrid parent starts criticising you it can be frightening and infuriating.
2. Learn to accept your situation.
3. Don’t retaliate.
4. Look to your future with hope.
5. Believe in yourself.
6. Talk to someone you trust.
7. Look after yourself.

10 Ways To Deal With An Overbearing Mother-In-Law

1. Talk it out with your mother-in-law.
2. Plan an activity for your spouse and their mother.
3. Have your spouse set the boundaries.
4. Dish it back to her.
5. Just let her do her thing.
6. Take off.
7. Don’t take anything she says or does personally.
8. Vent to her other daughters-in-law.

1. Stop trying to please them.
2. Set and enforce boundaries.
3. Dont try to change them.
4. Be mindful of what you share with them.
5. Know your parents limitations and work around them — but only if you want to.
6. Always have an exit strategy.

Some of the common signs of a toxic parent or parents include:

• Highly negatively reactive. Toxic parents are emotionally out of control.
• Lack of empathy. The toxic person or parent is not able to empathize with others.
• Extremely controlling.
• Highly critical.
• Blaming everyone else.

The toxic parent might feel angry, annoyed, disappointed, embarrassed, or even scared when their child behaves a certain way. They feel compelled to “nip things in the bud” instead of understanding the big picture and what’s actually going on with their kids.

It sounds like your mom is suffering from depression. If her behavior is new, she may be entering or going through menopause, during which her hormones are changing and affecting her physical and mental state. It’s a very challenging time for a woman, and many women suffer mood swings and depression.

“You should absolutely allow your children to see you cry,” says Cherie R. “It shows them that you are human and life is tough and you can feel bad and work through it.

Sometimes they become exhausted and want some alone time, so they stay in bed. It’s all about some self-care, plus eating, drinking, watching a great chick flick and maybe some crying or laughing. But sometimes, moms do not get enough self-care, and then you find mom crying in bed. Children bring us the greatest gifts.

It is completely normal for new parents to feel overwhelmed with your new roles and responsibilities and tearful in the first few days after baby arrives (Shaw et al, 2006). Mums have another reason to cry. The levels of pregnancy hormones drop rapidly three to ten days after giving birth.

It shows either you are dependent on your mom or your mom is dependent on you. If you cry with your mom shows you are human. When you are emotionally attached with any living beings, you feel bad for them in their bad times. You feel bad when someone scold them.

Your mother does have a right to hit you (there is a limit though…she cannot use objects that cause severe injuries, to hit you and should not hit you in such a way that causes severe damages to your body) but only if you were being a disobedient child.