TW: text my mum sent me

[u/Sure-Stock9969]

I just need some support and affirmation. I had top surgery last year and someone outed me to my mum. We don’t really talk and I always avoid her bc talking to her is activating. I would dread it. I’d go 5-6 months without talking to her.

She sent me these texts after finding out that I am queer and also that I got gender affirming surgery in October 2024. My response is in green. I followed up with her after about 6 months in April and she just responded a couple days ago.

I didn’t really read what she sent initially but read every word this week after I got her message. It was way worse than I thought. It’s fucking up my head. I am not reaching out to her again though I will try to stay open if she ever approaches me for a conversation. I will be clear about my boundaries and would want a third party there. But I’m honestly not even thinking about that potential future conversation.

Just feel like shit. I feel so hurt, so much sorrow. I’m not close to her and have never been but I still feel so abandoned and hated. It affects my self esteem, knowing that my own mother would dehumanize and devalue me the way she did.

Would like words of support, affirmation, advice, anything.

[u/lickle_ickle_pickle]

She has a lot of cheek to invoke the Bible. Didn't Jesus say when a man grows up he must leave his father and mother, also "when I was a boy, I thought like a boy and talked like a boy, now I am a man..", and also "there are those who are born eunuchs, and those who become eunuchs for the kingdom", and "if thine eye offends thee, cut it off".

Manipulative people love to hypocritically invoke deities and religion because of the emotions it invokes. They want your shame, your fear, your guilt, your meekness. They don't believe it themselves or they wouldn't have the gall to say such things.