Therapy should be a requirement before some ppl try going on to parent another human. Generational trauma is nasty work and I see a whole lot of parents my age perpetuating the same cycle. Doesn’t matter how we were treated when we were younger, that’s not on YOUR kids, we know better now so do better.
I’ve said this before, but I think many people confuse being open and being vulnerable. being open means we are in control of how someone perceives us, because we are willingly sharing information. being vulnerable means people are seeing us in moments where we are messy and human, and it’s often by accident