Yeah, sure, she physically took care of you, but when you spend your entire life being emotionally ignored and treated as if your opinion does not matter even slightly for 16 YEARS STRAIGHT, then there's a problem
My mom is unemployed and in her 30s calls me names pours water on me if I sleep on the couch after a long day and doesn’t help around the house and she calls me a demon child when I ask her to do anything or not to pour water on me when I sleep on the couch. Also we live with my grandma. Am I allowed to say no to her yet.
Why should I care that I made her cry? After all the times she's done it to me? After all the times where everything I felt and did was seen as invalid, why should I care about it happening to her once? If anything, she is finally a step closer to understanding the pain she inflicts on me every single day.
Yeah, she was there for me physically, but my emotions were CONSTANTLY thrown out the window. Not only that, she may have let some clues slip that I might be an accident. I'm genuinely not sure how to feel towards her.
For those of you not noticing, I'm saying that, while she did take care of me physically, she threw my emotions out the window. Emotionally, she simply wasn't there.