This morning I woke up to the sound of my parents arguing, yelling, cursing, and insulting each other. …Over whether or not we should hire a professional to paint our house. My parents have been together for 27 years and they use to like each other. I know they use to because I’ve seen them getting along in home movies from when I was very little, and I remember them going away on a trip to Chicago alone for their anniversary when I was 6 or 7. Now they can’t stand each other. They are constantly fighting over very stupid things. They hate each other. I love my dad. He’s very sweet and acts like a kid sometimes. He spent nearly all his time during college studying from morning until night (not an exaggeration. he’s a doctor now and was almost obsessed with his studying during medical school) I think that caused him to never really grow up. He’s a little irresponsible and self-centered sometimes, but I know he loves his kids. He’s also very, very, very stubborn. He’ll get caught in thinking something and will rarely change his opinion. We have a lot of things in common like music and I’m the closest one to him. My mom have a sort-of strained relationship. She never really was the “mothery type”. I know she loves me but she never says it. I try to tell her about my life, like how school is going, who my friends are, and things like that that most teenagers don’t tell their parents so I can let her know that I want her to know what’s going on in my life. My mom is a very practical person. She likes peace and quiet. My little brother (who is a year younger than me) are kind of rambunctious sometimes. We’re very loud and annoying I guess sometimes, and my mom hates that. It’s not like we’re going it on purpose. We just like to make eachother laugh I guess. My mom isn’t a very funny person. She doesn’t laugh very much. She gets annoyed with me very easily and often. We get along sometimes though. We have a few inside jokes. I love it when my mom laughs. I’m always so happy when I can get her to laugh. I think she leads a very boring life and I just want her to be happy. She’s very “normal” while I try to be unique and I guess, kind of strange!. Our personalities are completely opposite, but I still try to get along with her. Anyway, my parents are always getting into fights. Mostly because of my dad’s stubbornness and my mom’s complete practicality. I don’t even know WHY they are still together. And I’m not talking about small fights that happen once in a while, I mean they are constantly bickering about stupid things and don’t enjoy each other’s company at all. The thing that really hurts me is that they’re always trying to make me take a side. After a fight, me and my mom will go run errands and all she’ll try and do is get me to agree that my dad is an idiot. And when I go places with my dad, he’ll try to get me to agree that my mom ******* about everything and is annoying. I wish they’d cut that out. I don’t even think they realize they do that. And it doesn’t bother me when right when it happens, I just say “I guess” and move on, but when I really think about it later, it hurts my feelings so bad. Another thing that bothers me is that they never seem sad about fighting. They never seem sad that they hate each other. It’s just fight, go to separate rooms, avoid, rinse and repeat. They try to stay away from each other as much as possible. They talk because they have to. On their 25th anniversary everything was just so hollow and empty and fake. We had a cake for them and we went out to eat and they gave each other a peck on the lips and the next day it was back to normal. It was kind of scary. I know I can’t make them like each other. I just don’t know what to do to keep myself from feeling sad about it. Because of their problems, our family is very reclusive and “sweep it under the carpet and it never happened”. Like I can’t tell them that I feel this way. We just don’t do that in this house. I just don’t ever want that to happen to me. To slowly hate someone I use to love. All my friends have parents that either like each other a lot or are divorced. I would like it if my parents were that way. They don’t have to be all “OMG I LOVE YOU SOO MUCH” but if they just got along it would be great. Or at least not drag me into their stupid fighting.
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I don't know about Xbox, but I'd be very worried if I woke up to the sound of my parents screaming at each other. I really wish there were the right kinds of people to deal with parents, but that's not happening, so i suggest that you really talk with them. And not just that, I hope you tell them that it truly hurts you, and that sweeping everything under the carpet thing never works. and maybe confront each of them individually on how you're not going to take sides. Good luck to you. and send updates.