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the sun will rise and we'll smile again ❤

[Queend @dorcas_tonze]

It sure feels good to recieve love 🤗🤗🤗

[your babyy ❤️🦋 @Veryweirdgirl_]

"That's my dad's chair." Yeah... don't invite us to your house then.

[Debbie @Debbie_roma]

Mothers will treat you anyhow, and then all of a sudden, when you’re older, they want to form a bond.

[Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧 @lilyally98]

Many Nigerian mothers were very angry people.

This is not to make excuses for their bad behaviour, but most were unhappy in their marriages and trapped with horrible partners.

So they usually pour that anger on their daughters.

[⭐️Teo🫧!! comms open 💖 (1/3) @teogobrr]

So many people in the replies talking about how they used to fantasize about dying by the hands of their parents when they were children, just so their parents would feel just a little bit of guilt

Yet people still think beating children is just discipline and not abuse.

[Olori🍒 @OloriOfOloris]

Hot take: daughters had it harder with their mothers than their brothers did. Many Nigerian mothers are deeply male centered.

[Z @buttacup_x]

I got into medical school, realized that we don’t get as much holidays and I was so happy because that means I don’t have to go home to endure my mother’s screaming and abuse
I was suffering in medical school but guess what? I still picked that over going home.
I was free!!

[cyn🌸 @cynugwudike]

my dad will abuse you, i will come to your rescue, my dad will abuse me because of you and you’ll allow it happen and then you too will abuse me

only me, you’ll cry to me and you’ll still beat me, only me

only me your savior and your slave

only me

[Chief £ne @_Ojonya]

Somewhere in her heart, she believes all her “discipline” is the reason I’ve come so far so fast in life.

Me that is living with clinical depression, anxiety, and ADHD. Me that has OD’d again very recently.

[EA has her PVC @virtuousii]

Told Asher a few days ago that I was with someone who spoke to their parents like they were actual friends and it made me uncomfortable because it was unusual for me to witness. I kept waiting for the ball to drop.

[Goth Freak 🕸️ @Gothicshelah]

Living with a religious fanatic who was convinced you're the reason for her downfall? Lmao I won't recommend

[Fọlá @lafemmefola]

The stories of mother to daughter abuse that are being shared as a result of this piece is the reason I hate those “give grace to your mother” tweets. Mothers are usually their daughter’s first abusers and we need to talk about this more. It’s a cycle that needs to end!

[ThatPortharcourtBoy aka Nnukwu Nmanwu @ThatPHCBoy]

personally, i think one of the most dangerous things about beating children, is that you teach them early enough that someone can love them and still physically hurt them. imagine your daughters growing up and navigating romantic relationships with this notion.

[cyn🌸 @cynugwudike]

never had a “i need my mom” moment because wetin she go do fr lmao

except add to my problem 😭🤣

[Fortune is Sunshine Daisy @ShiAraoluwa]

My mother own was to berate. One hour down and she's still talking. Hurtful words o. How she trained other people's children and they never stressed her like me. How lazy and stupid I am. The amount of "o gor". Chai

[DeolaA @DeolaA6]

Everyone’s mom was beating them while mine called me stupid, useless, ugly etc every chance she got. There is NOTHING she hasn’t said to me under the guise of ‘correction’

My first bully for real

[luckiest boy alive @marv1nci]

More than the obligatory love, no one talks about the trauma of watching an abusive parent "change" so you're left looking crazy and stuck on some "thing" that happened in the past

Much love, cyn ❤️

[Z @buttacup_x]

Something about Nigerian parents expecting a deep emotional bond when you’re older meanwhile all they did while you were younger was insult and physically abuse you
You’re surprised that I recoil at your touch when you hug me and I never come home but you used to beat me

[Olori🍒 @OloriOfOloris]

Anytime I tell my mum that it's too late for us to be besties she starts to crash out. Like she literally has no recollection of how mean and unapproachable she use to be.

In her head, she was and has always been mother of the year. Girl bfr.