Toxic parents quotes can help you heal from toxicity, break free from toxic relationships, and build your ideal life by using toxic words as fuel to grow.
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toxic parents quotes
Narcissist parents don’t care about their children’s feelings at all. Only their feelings matter.
It’s amazing how people can change behind closed doors.
Toxic parents care more about how you make them look than how you actually feel.
Don’t let their past abuse define you for the rest of your life.
A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be.
As a parent, you should be more concerned with your child’s happiness than your petty insecurities and jealousies.
An unpredictable parent is a fearsome god in the eyes of a child.
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
All of us develop our expectations about how people will treat us based on our relationships with our parents.
Bad parents see no wrong in the way they treat their children.
Too much love never spoils children. Children become spoiled when we substitute presents for presence.
Being a selfish parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
A narcissist’s criticism is their autobiography.
Good parenting gives headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.
As long as you continue to react so strongly to them, you give them the power to upset you, which allows them to control you.
It has been my observation that parents kill more dreams than anybody.
If mental abuse was a punishable crime, a lot of parents would be in jail serving a long term
Leave your pride, ego, and narcissism somewhere else. Reactions from those parts of you will reinforce your children’s most primitive fears.
Many children of toxic parents find it exceptionally difficult to identify who they are once they grow up.
Love and respect them but don’t get caught up in their drama.
Wise parents prepare their children to get along without them.
My parents loved us, but I wasn’t always sure they liked us.
A child should never feel as if they need to earn a mother’s love.
In the minds of my parents, they are the victims; I am the abuser.
At the core of every formerly mistreated adult —even high achievers—is a little child who feels powerless and afraid.
People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.
There’s a reason why people who’ve had bad relationships with their parents listen to angry stuff.
It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.
Remember, you are not managing an inconvenience; You are raising a human being.
When you grieve toxic, abusive parents, you don’t just grieve the abuse, you grieve everything you didn’t have.
Selfish people don’t consider how their decisions affect others. Their own convenience is all that matters.
People tend to raise the child inside of them rather than the child in front of them.
Controlling parents will always assume their children are their property they can possess.
Control, manipulation and possessiveness is the name of their game.
Toxic parenting leaves scars. Every child deserves good parenting. It is a parental responsibility, not a privilege.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
The majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Inadequate parents are responsible both for what they did do and for what they didn’t.
Parental alienation is an emotional act of violence that is aimed at an adult, but critically wounds a child.
Money has always been the primary language of power.
Family is where you’re meant to be most free, don’t let blood chain you down.
When you grieve toxic, abusive parents, you don’t just grieve the abuse, you grieve everything you didn’t have.
Many children of toxic parents find it hard exceptionally difficult to identify who they are once they grow up.
They are not sorry for harming you. So, don’t feel guilty for cutting them off.
Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.
What’s so sad is when we’re younger, if you have a bad parent, that is normal to you and that’s what you think of as healthy.
It’s amazing how people can change behind closed doors.
The ones that love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
It’s amazing how people can change behind closed doors.
No child should ever have to bear the burden of parenting their own parents. To toxic parents, you existed to serve them all the time.
Just remember when you are ignoring your child, you are teaching them to live without you.
I was worthy of her love whether she gave it to me or not. Every child is worthy of love.
The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived life of its parents.
Many children of toxic parents find it exceptionally difficult to identify who they are once they grow up.
Toxic parents care more about how you make them look than how you actually feel.
Sometimes, using no contact is the best way to be safe from abusive parents.
Narcissist parents don’t care about their children’s feelings at all. Only their feelings matter.
They should love you, just as you are. Parents should love their kids, right?” “You’d think so.
An unloving mother robs the child of a sense of belonging. The need to belong can become a lifelong quest for him or her.
To all, you parents out there, don’t make your little girls, or little boys, so thirsty for love that they will want to drink water that will poison them.
A lot of parents will do anything for their kids except let them be themselves.
Toxic parents are the root cause of all dysfunctional families because the fish rots first at its head.
Letting go of toxic parents quotes
Family or not, I will cut you off. That saying, ‘But that’s family,’ means nothing if a family is toxic and means you no good.
A family portrait is only complete with love to fill its frame.
The ones that love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please.
Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
Letting go of toxic people in your life is a big step in loving yourself.
Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.
In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted. It’s talking about them that is forbidden.
She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.
The ones that love us least, are the ones we’ll die to please.
Family is where you’re meant to be most free; don’t let blood chain you down.
Great parenting happens when you start controlling yourself and stop controlling your child.
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
A child’s shoulders were not built to bear the weight of their parent’s choices.
Handling toxic people is not an art; they will be the victim of their own toxicity
You can learn, but you’ve got to give yourself time to pick up the basics, to practice, and maybe even to fail once or twice. – toxic parents quotes
I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.
In some sense every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.
You can always leave your childhood trauma, your abusive mom or dad behind. Never be a victim.
The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behaviour of others.
In some sense, every parent does love their children. But some parents are too broken to love them well.
There should be an anti-father day. A bad dad’s day. That way I could truly say “you are the best.
Every father should remember that one day, his son will follow exactly how his father put his needs above everyone else.
I was worthy of her love whether she gave it to me or not. Every child is worthy of love.
Emotionally abusive parents quotes
If mental abuse was a punishable crime, a lot of parents would be in jail serving a long term.
When you grieve toxic, abusive parents, you don’t just grieve the abuse, you grieve everything you didn’t have.
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place we find the deepest heartache.
Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love.
Sometimes, using no contact is the best way to be safe from abusive parents.
You can always leave your childhood trauma your abusive mom or dad behind. Never be a victim.
I believe in the American Dream because I’ve lived it.
The truth of it is, the first rudiments of education are given very indiscreetly by most parents.
It’s about what I went through at home living with an abusive father.
Just because someone is your family doesn’t mean you have to keep them around if they are toxic or abusive. Don’t let people guilt you.
When you grieve toxic, abusive parents, you don’t just grieve the abuse, you grieve everything you didn’t have.
Controlling parents will always assume their children are their property they can possess.
Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
Instead of promoting healthy development, they unconsciously undermine it, often with the belief that they are acting in their child’s best interest.
toxic co parenting quotes
At the end of the day, the most overwhelming key to a child’s success is the positive involvement of the parents.
The best, most mature co-parent will tell their therapist – and not their child – how much the other parent sucks.
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
A little empathy for your co-parent goes a long way.
The blended family isn’t just an ordinary family times two. It’s a special kind of family with special needs.
The best security blanket a child can have is parents who respect each other.
This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face, learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first. – toxic parents quotes
Co-parenting with my ex is awesome! They’ve really become so mature and cooperative since our divorce, said no one ever!!
Make a positive difference in your children’s lives. Act and speak about your co-parent with respect and integrity.
Co-parenting with a psychopath is a special kind of hell.
Depression & negativity toxic parents quotes
Nothing is weaker or smaller than the man who hurts women or children whether by his actions or by his words.
Toxic parenting leaves scars. Every child deserves good parenting. It is a parental responsibility, not a privilege.
All of us develop our expectations about how people will treat us based on our relationships with our parents.
Good parenting give headaches but bad parenting gives heartaches.
A toxic mother talks but never listens, and she gives advice but never takes any.
Toxic people will pollute everything around them. Don’t hesitate. Fumigate.
Stop letting people who do so little for you control so much of your mind, feelings, and emotions.
Blood doesn’t make you family. Some of the most demonic and demeaning people in your life share your DNA.
It’s not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.
Toxic father quotes
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
Fathers, you are the head and strength of the family unit. If you are not in place, there is a weakness in the link.
Be more than a father, be a dad. Be more than a figure, be an example.
A greedy father has thieves for children.
Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.
Fathers should know that sons follow their example, not advice.
It’s not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
An absent father needs to realize his child’s needs before it is too late.
Toxic fathers view their children’s love for them as automatic—something they deserve for just being fathers.
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.
All toxic mothers are more dangerous than absent fathers due to their contagious toxic energy which poisons your soul. – toxic parents quotes
The little girl’s dependency on her father made [his] abuse more insidious.
If there’s no relationship with a father who’s absent, nobody talks about it.
There’s nothing worse than a man that can be everything to everybody else except a father to their own child.
Selfish people don’t consider how their decisions affect others. Their own convenience is all that matters.
Selfish bad parents quotes
Being a selfish parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
Anyone can have a child and call themselves “a parent”. A real parent is someone who puts that child above their own selfish needs and wants.
It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.
Selfishness stems from a sense of heart poverty, from the perception that love is scarce.
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Selfish people don’t consider how their decisions affect others. Their own convenience is all that matters.
Anyone can have a child and call themselves a parent. Real parents are those who put that child above their own selfish needs and wants. – toxic parents quotes
It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.
Selfish people don’t consider how their decisions affect others. Their own convenience is all that matters.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Selfish parents may someday realize what damage they have done that can never be undone.
Divorce doesn’t scar children. Selfish parents with insecurities do.
It takes someone really brave to become a mother. As it requires lot of strength to raise a child and love them more than one loves themselves.
Selfish people are unable to love others, but they are also unable to love themselves.
Being a selfish parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
I hope that these toxic parents quotes parents will help you to heal and move on from toxicity. You can also read quotes about saying a final goodbye to toxic relationships.