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It’s not your job as a child to carry the burden of regulating your parents emotions. Children shouldn’t be the solution to the parent’s problem. Children do not owe anything to them. We are born as expressions of love or born in other cases, in disharmonious situations without consent, either way we do not owe them anything. We came through them, but not for them. We are not here to fulfil their dreams or desires. We are not here to make them happy. We should not carry the expectation of their happiness on our growing shoulders. We are here to find our own voice and share it with the world. When a child has to parent their parent it can cause them to build resentment, anger, sadness, and confusion. The natural harmony of life is disrupted and roles are distorted. Free yourself from needing to fulfil any expectations your parents have of you. They are not entitled to have you behave a certain way in order to make them happy. Your soul incarnated here to learn lessons and grow and have its own experience and expression. Do not make their journey yours—you are here to have your own. As I write this I am reminded of Khalil Gibran’s poem On Children.
You can’t heal in the same place you were wounded.
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