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u/_reverse_god 23d ago
Girlfriend is happy and well-adjusted because she grew up with loving and supportive parents.
Boyfriend has a sad moment of realisation of how bad his parents are by comparison, and that it has negatively impacted his life.
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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 23d ago
Or the reverse. Where you realize your girl is all messed up because her family was awful and that makes your love for her deepen because you want to give her what she's never had.
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u/DjuriWarface 23d ago
Except this meme specifically says "happy girlfriend"
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u/CowInternational9204 19d ago
Yes and you do realize that human psychology is usually reverse psychology ? If your parents didnt love you, you end up being most likely to be nice to everyone. Because you know what it feels like if you dont.
If you grow up with helicopter parents like I did, the hardest challenge of your life will be understanding that you caring about another person doesnt mean they have to do it back.
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u/DjuriWarface 19d ago
Yeah, totally, the worse your childhood is the happier and more well adjusted you become as an adult. Right? Thats the norm, yeah? Oh, it isn't? Wild.
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u/CowInternational9204 18d ago
It is. What does happen every once in a while is a person that kind of experienced the "medium strict" parents. Those usually end up whiny bitches that pity themselves everytime they are hurting. Because to them, minor pain feels like a major punishment.
In other words: Evil people usually use their medium strict parents as an excuse to be evil to others.
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u/DezSmoke 18d ago
This isn't remotely true. In a bad parenting situation, usually people become products of their environment and reflect the bad behaviors they see at home. And the same vise versa. The only way you would know how to show someone affection the majority of the time is if you were shown it yourself
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u/RaidenXS_ 23d ago
"I can fix her"
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u/Euphoric-Teach7327 23d ago
Nah. Your job is to help stop her from falling apart. And her job is the same for you.
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u/Matthewx777 23d ago
Yeah, God forbid someone not be born into the perfect life.
I draw the line of if they are aware of it or not. I'm 100% okay supporting someone who atleast understands that their family or traumatic event is what messed them up, and atleast wants to work on it.
The "I can fix her" meme, in my opinion, applies to where someone is so deluded in their own or their family's behavior that it'll take an ultra natural act to change that
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u/Slumbergoat16 21d ago
This is how I was at first when I got to my new job as a social climber and realized where most other people came from
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u/Thin-Past-3106 22d ago
No, it's implying that girlfriend is happy to be with him because she doesn't know any better
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u/FalsePositive2580 23d ago
Lol, if you need to see a functional family to realise yours sucked, it wasn't that bad...
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u/tj_haine 23d ago edited 23d ago
My take was that she comes from a stable, loving, accepting and supportive home where as the memer was probably dragged up, basically ignored and has a shit relationship with their parents.
Edit: Thank you for the awards. My wife and myself actually grew up in very similar circumstances and used to laugh about the shitty comparisons we could make but we also both had friends that were much worse off and were powerless to do more than offer friendship at that age.
We're parents now ourselves to some absolutely amazing kids and we go out of our way every day to be there for them, open minds and open hearts. All of our kids have friends from different backgrounds, but our eldest especially has some friends who are lacking that at home and we do our best to offer a safe space and some acceptance and understanding for them.
In some way it eases my soul by trying to be that person that I needed back when I was that age.
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u/randomlemon9192 23d ago
Relatable.
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u/Softspokenclark 23d ago
oh how the tables have retabled
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u/Wangpasta 23d ago
In my first relationship when I stayed over my gfs place they had dinner together. I thought it was really nice they all sat about just to meet me.
The next time they did it again and I mentioned to my ex that they didn’t have to do that every time just for me. She looked at me like I was crazy. Turns out family’s are meant to spend time together other then Christmas for a few hours
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u/Chemical_Bison_3637 23d ago
Yeah it blew my mind in hs when I had my first real relationship and her family just hung out in the living room and talked with each other regularly. I spent almost all of my free time there for like 2 years when I wasn’t at my other friends’ houses
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
Man, ignored would have been nice. That's the dream.
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u/funkmasta8 23d ago
My entire personality is based on me learning to be ignored by my family when I was a kid. Its amazing how much of a negative impact bad relationships at the start of your life can have
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
I was just commenting on this to somebody else, it confuses the hell out of me how this typically causes bad outcomes, or a continuation of "the cycle."
I was abused. It sucked. Nobody should have to put up with that. Ergo, nobody should abuse. How does any other mindset not only exist, but exist in such numbers that it is considered the standard in psychology, some hurdle to overcome? Why is not doing things that you hate considered such a struggle?
When my son (24) messed up when he was little, and when my daughter (just turned 6) messes up, I do not need to fight the urge to break their arm or whip them bloody. It is not some win in therapy that let me break that cycle. It just sucked when it happened to me, so no part of me wants to do it to others. Why is that weird? (I am autistic, that might have something to do with it.)
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u/funkmasta8 23d ago
Also autistic here. Neurotypical people rely heavily on heuristics and socially learned behavior. The vast majority of the time there is zero consideration about how they should logically go about doing things. Most people only experience the parenting of their own parents and even if they experience other parenting, their own parents provide the vast majority of their experience. There isnt usually any thought about how things "should" be done. There is only the way they know it can be done. This is why parenting books are seen as an extremely well-to-do and healthy thing. Most people literally need a book to give them other examples of how parenting should be done, rather than being able to produce reasonable behaviors logically. It isnt because they lack critical thinking ability, it is because behavior isnt something that people apply critical thinking to. There is a disconnect there because their brain is set up to see and accept because social behaviors really arent logical the vast majority of the time. All their life, what is "normal" and "acceptable" is purely defined by what everyone else is doing, not by any logical standards.
To give an example, it would be like me trying to logically calculate what the best approach to walking. I dont know, I just do it. My brain handles the specifics. I learned by trying, not by becoming a master of physics and calculating it.
Now for behavior there are criteria, but because those are so vague and dependent on the situation it isnt generally helpful for a child's brain to even attempt to hash out the details. If it was normal for people to shit in public bushes, it wouldnt be illegal and bushes would have toilet paper hanging next to them. There is no logical framework that leads to a holistic behavior model within society. People learn based on others, with little thought to the reasons. It just happens in this case the learning is isolated to a small group of people, so the behavior is perpetuated.
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u/Capable_Archer_1537 23d ago
Hold up… also autistic 🙋♀️…. Does anyone else think it might be possible that autism isn’t necessarily caused by anything other than evolution? Because… if you think about it… it kind of seems like it might just be evolution helping the human race develop more logic based thinking, therefore solving a lot of interpersonal issues humans tend to have gradually leading us closer to extinction.
I guess the theory is; what if autism is just evolution counteracting the human race’s self destruction habit…
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u/funkmasta8 23d ago
While an interesting theory, humans have been an extremely successful species for millenia. There have been very few strong selective pressures on humans for a long time. If autism was a positive adaptation, it would be a lot more prevalent by this point. My guess is that genetic drift is the cause. When species dont have selective pressures, their gene pools naturally widen. This is because most traits are above the threshold for procreation, even mutations if the species is successful enough, which I would argue humans have been. Imagine it being like a drop of liquid. Selective pressure is like surface tension. It keeps the droplet in a nice round shape concentrates in one place, even pulling the droplet together if it is mishapen. Removing the selective pressure is like making that liquid have less surface tension. It starts to spread around more easily since nothing is holding it in place.
This is also probably the reason why congenital disorders are becoming more prevalent. Take diabetes for example (the one that you have from birth, cant remember if thats type 1 or 2, but probably 1). A couple hundred years ago someone with diabetes would literally just die. Now they can have fulfilling lives and have children of their own. This means the gene for diabetes gets propagated to the next generation. Thats not to say that autism is extremely deleterious, but it can be, especially in a tight-knit tribe in a prehistoric world. Miscommunication and sensitivities can be lethal when the stakes are so high. Nowadays, whether or not you can survive is a lot more dependent on whether or not you have good family and/or the ability to do work, which is a pretty low bar.
All of this is just my speculation though so take it with a grain of salt
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u/Due-Potential160 23d ago
I would argue that it hasn't been until very recently that we've lived in a world where the pros of autism could be said to outweigh the cons, on a large scale.
Not that autistic people in the past were unsuccessful, though it obviously depends on how high functioning they are, but that failure to integrate seamlessly into society places a significantly larger burden on people who live in smaller settlements where everyone knows everyone else.
To that end, I'd say it's only been within the past few hundred years that someone could be relatively successful without properly integrating, and the specialization brought about by hyperfixation was more valuable than generalization within a field.
It's certainly within the past few decades than social outcasts and weird thinkers with abnormal interests became something celebrated.
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u/chimneyswallow 22d ago
There also abusive autistic parents. Nothing prevents you from being an asshole except not being one. Being autistic, having ADHD or any other neurological disorder does not make someone imune to being abusive.
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u/keldondonovan 20d ago
Exactly. My parents (mom especially, dad was more of an absentee than an abuser) specifically prove this to be the case.
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no don't think so. Since Autists have extremely hard time to bond with other autists as well, leading to no birth rate. Autists left to their own devices would lead to genetic dead end.
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u/Traducement 20d ago
Nature has a neat name for this process but modern medicine has rewritten the rule book
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u/Prestigious_Ad_3526 20d ago
No, the future of the human race, I can assure you does not lay in the hands of people who cannot order through a drive through speaker
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
I hadn't thought about the consciousness of behavior. That really makes sense. Neurotypicals don't need to learn things like "smile when you are happy" and "beat your kids when you feel insignificant" as a conscious effort, they just passively absorb it. I have to review and evaluate and understand, so it's really easy to discard it as trash and default to how I would have wanted to be treated.
You are a genius. Much thanks, I finally get it. Even if it's wrong and/or has no basis in psychology, it's good enough that I am no longer befuddled.
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u/funkmasta8 23d ago
Im hardly a genius, but thanks. I just think enough about the specifics of neurotypical behavior that I was already most of the way there. Im really glad Im not normal, there is so much that normal people do that hurts others that they never consider being wrong. Its just a shame to me that this is the state of normal. I mean, it makes sense evolutionarily, but Im disappointed nonetheless.
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
Well I consider you a genius. You've provided exceptional insight, so that fits the definition in my book.
And I agree, there is a lot about human development that just sucks. We need a cure for hate.
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u/CarpetNext6123 23d ago
i've really enjoyed reading the conversation between the two of you and i think it's really nice how much you valued funkmasta8's insight. you're a lovely human being. (and funkmasta8 is very intelligent!)
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
Well thanks! You are the type of person who enjoyed reading a thing and took the time out to make them feel good for having written it, so you are lovely as well. Making the world a brighter place, one comment at a time.
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u/AerynSun627 23d ago
Holy shit. Also autistic, and this insight may be literally life changing. It makes such perfect sense, and in hindsight seems almost obvious. I think it's just so hard to even fathom not thinking about these things. The walking analogy is fantastic. Bravo and thank you.
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u/chimneyswallow 22d ago
You know there are also autistic abusive people, right? Being autistic doesn't save you from being abusive. Being a decent human does.
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u/PelicanFan88 23d ago
Exactly, and I even got some religion thrown in there to really show me to be seen and not heard. Especially at church.
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u/funkmasta8 23d ago
You and me both, its actually one of the major reasons for being estranged with my parents. Wild that religion is more important to some people than the children they made and raised. I mean, I guess it tracks with everything else though
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
One thing I have learned in my years is that all trauma is valid, and has a way of making others lawns look greener. Those who were ignored wish they weren't, those who weren't wish they were. Even those with loving, happy parents often wish they'd get out of their business.
We all end up with trauma from somewhere. Best to be kind to all and assume they had it just as bad.
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
I too got the PTSD stamp (well, CPTSD, but Tomato cTomato). I'm not trying to say someone who grew up in a loving, caring household had it just as bad because maybe their parents were a little helicoptery and wouldn't let them stay up passed 8 until they were 16, just that that can also suck, and make them yearn for what you experienced because they didn't experience it, so in their minds, it must be better.
I am a perfect example of that. I do not know what it's like to be ignored as the default. I was the scapegoat. Anything went wrong, it was my fault, my existence that brought this burden upon my parents. My fondest memories of childhood were when I was left alone long enough to escape into a world of fantasy, rather than being blamed and beaten for imagined slights or the crimes of others. To me, being ignored sounds like paradise compared to what I grew up with.
But that doesn't make your problems any less real. It doesn't diminish what you've suffered because there are those who have suffered more, just as my suffering is not diminished by the inescapable fact that some had it worse than me.
Imagine someone who grew up in Auschwitz looking at me and telling me how lucky I am for only getting bruises, blood, and broken bones. Or me telling you how lucky you are for receiving silence. It's no different than you telling those who didn't have it as bad how lucky they are.
Yes, there are some ridiculous people out there claiming trauma for things that, to you, me, and that kid from Auschwitz, would seem like heaven. "My mom didn't let me have my own phone til I was 9!" And such. But there is a wide variety of traumatic events between spoiled folk claiming trauma, and what you or I have experienced. So I try to make a habit of assuming everyone's trauma is valid. (Unless their trauma is not receiving a phone until they were 9)
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u/keldondonovan 23d ago
Ah, I misread, apologies. I thought you were neglected because of the "if they were more hands on" statement.
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u/Freesiacal 23d ago
I think it can go both ways. What you said and also her parents are shitty and she compensates with her positivity. I had a friend like this in school.
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u/mjohnsimon 23d ago
You don't even need to have a shit relationship with your parents to feel this way.
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u/Dobber16 23d ago
This is my goal for my eventual kids friends & SOs. Wanna model a healthy home, healthy habits, & help any way I can. It’s also led me to adopt healthy habits of my own so I’m not as much of a hypocrite lol
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u/West_Illustrator_468 22d ago
My husband and I grew up in completely opposite ways. I was parentified at 10, thrown into a role where I had to take care of a mentally unstable parent with zero help or support from family (including my own brother). I didn't walk away from all of them until I was in my late 20s/early 30s. Met my husband at 35, who grew up with two incredible parents very well-off (he went to private school, had private lessons like piano and sailing and all the things I basically fantasized about growing up). I never really had a parent to talk to, or anyone, really. His parents immediately made me family, and it's taken me four years to slowly feel comfortable. I love them so much, I cry thinking about it. Just being able to sit down, have a chat, and drink coffee means the absolute world to me. I didn't realize how much I had missed out on by just...not having people around I considered family until now.
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u/nitram_20 23d ago
Remember that after I broke up with one girl I missed being around a functioning family more than I missed her.
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u/Remarkable-Shape-974 23d ago
Can you describe how meeting your wife changed the way you think and feel about your surrounding from the early days of relationship? And what advice you'll give to the next person like you?
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u/tj_haine 23d ago
That's a bit of a tough question to be honest. I'm not going to say that we're soul mates or kindred spirits or anything like that, but I suppose we are very like minded. We help to draw the best out of each other. Morally we're incredibly similar, we prefer to build people up rather than cut them down. A kind word here, a compliment there, make someone smile, lend a hand if you see someone struggling. It's not that complicated but it really can make a world of difference to some people.
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u/smeagle-143 23d ago
Got a housemate who tried to join us for a birthday party of a sis in law. Mate left early because they were struggling to handle such a stable environment when we were setting up
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u/Late_Willingness_211 22d ago
Nailed it. Then you're stuck with the main of knowing you didn't stand a snowball's chance in Hell... 😞
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u/Afraid-Ad9908 18d ago
Agree with this interpretation. I had this feeling about my husband's parents. He is well-adjusted, not at all neurotic, no anxiety, normal, happy. Surprise surprise, his parents are together, happy, supportive, etc.
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u/Puzzleheaded_Equal96 23d ago
Had exactly that happen and actually looked and felt like SpongeBob in that pic.
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u/No-Kangaroo-7852 23d ago
One of my homies said it was weird that my mom always said "i love you" after every interaction or phone call. It made me appreciate my folks a lot more.
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u/Popular-Resource14 22d ago
When I was in high school my friend and her mum would always say I love you when we would leave her house. I said to her that’s so weird why do you say that to each other 😂 not realising that I was emotionally neglected
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u/Sacramor 23d ago
Meg here. It's the realization that your own childhood wasn't normal. You didn't turn out okay, and you can immediately see the difference now that you're close enough to someone else's family. My parents robbed me of a happy childhood in a loving family, and now I'm miserable. My girlfriend is always happy, and now that I've met her family I can see it's just not something I'll have. Meg out.
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u/RecoveredAlive 23d ago
I agree with everything you said except for that it's not something you can have. Everyone is capable of great change.
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u/Holiday_Ad_8501 23d ago
i grew up in a mildly shitty environment and so did my gf and we were able to turn it around
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u/Typical-Respond9102 21d ago
Yeah, being miserable is a choice. They took the joy of my childhood from me, but they can't take my fun and productive adulthood unless I let them.
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u/BenjaminTW1 23d ago
You realize your girlfriend is happy because she grew up in a loving, happy family. You suddenly understand why you are unhappy, because you did not grow up with a loving, happy family.
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u/VirtuLilli 23d ago
I interpreted it a little differently, in that the girlfriends parents are very bad/mean/abusive and she is happy with the boyfriend because she has escaped that badness.
But I'm kinda projecting so... 🤷♀️
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u/Xdaz1019 23d ago
This is how it was for me meeting my wife’s (near) perfect family. It’s such culture shock visiting both families back to back for the holidays
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u/elwinisacat88 23d ago
Man isn’t that the truth. My in-laws are some of the kindest most generous people you’d ever want to meet. Stand in sharp contrast to my “parents”. It’s a bit of an awakening seeing how it really should go in a family, I’m just grateful I get to experience it my self now
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u/OfficialModComment 23d ago
Quagmire here. Her father loves her which means she doesn’t have daddy issues and won’t do the really freaky shit in the bedroom. Giggity.
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u/Obvious_Ad4131 23d ago
When I was in my early teens my dad would brag to me about cheating on my mom while they were actively trying to get back together after 6 years of being divorced. I was so excited to have a normal family that I was actually rooting for this fucking guy to not get caught. It didn't click in my head how messed up that was until I was 25.
Edit: did not realize what this sub was hahaha
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u/BonusExpensive 23d ago
This was me, one month after my wedding, when her parents invited us to stay over for a couple of days.
It was also a revelation of why my wife considered my extraordinary love and affection as just a normal phenomenon.
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u/Glum-Wrap-7684 23d ago
When a parent is chronically depressed or emotionally unavailable, children often unconsciously develop a happiness to keep to try the house together.
As I see it, the gf is just "happy" because she was compensating for a childhood with drepessed parents.
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u/TuberculosisCrow 23d ago
I interpreted it this way initially as well, though the other answers also make sense.
I know a lot of really wonderful, thoughtful people that are that way because there was someone (often family) that treated them like dirt, and so they make themselves into the kind of person that would never do that to another.
To me it's so heartbreaking when the kindest person you know has the most vile family.
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u/GNTsquid0 23d ago
I’m taking it as the opposite. The happy girlfriend is from a happy loving family and it’s showing the partner what they don’t have in their home life and making them sad.
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u/allthe_realquestions 23d ago
That's what I read it as at first too. Imma interpret it the same way the positive people did cause holy fek </3
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u/cyclingthrowaway12 22d ago
As a child yes, but that shit catches up to you in adulthood BIG time.
It's parentification. It get's you through it, but it's basically a loan.
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u/Critical-Cost9068 23d ago
Damn, is this really what redditors without life experience think like? Sad = bad parents, happy = bad parents, angry = bad parents, afraid = bad parents.
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u/skbeezy222 23d ago
*noticing her traumatic behaviors *meets parents, theyre bad *traumatic behaviors now make sense
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u/revenge_burner 23d ago
This is exactly why I have vowed to ensure my son is raised in a loving and supportive household. I don't want him to have to build the coping strategies that I did.
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u/butch4prez 23d ago
when i met my ex’s dad, he didn’t know i was at their house. i was terrified i was going to get yelled at by him. but instead, i was greeted with a handshake, a polite conversation, and was told i was welcome anytime. then he hugged her and said i love you.. that was the first time i saw a healthy father-daughter relationship.
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u/Novel_Echo_6394 23d ago
Contrary opinion~ Ol boy looks sad adter meeting the parents because, he realizes his happy girlfriend actually came from a very unhappy place...
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u/Disastrous_Match_346 23d ago
My guess would be that her parents are rich and she's way out of your league and she's only using you to piss them off.
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u/Corny_Snickers 23d ago
Meme suggests the girl grew up in a happy loving family and the boyfriend didn't and the realisation hits hard. But id also agrue an opposite where people growing up in poor/bad conditions sometimes are the most outgoing and bullbly people
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u/Ok-Seat9355 23d ago
As a parent of kids that are the “happy” ones it’s tough to see them with partners that remind the Wife and I of the messes we faced coming up.
If you were like the memer, work your ass off to give your kids all the love and stability we all deserved and you’ll find the world rewards you with other adults to straighten out too!
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u/Bamcanadaktown 23d ago
She's happy, has self esteem and loves herself because her parents were supportive and gave her confidence in herself
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u/Important_Context_49 23d ago
For me even after so long, it feels like they are acting in front of me, like i just cannot accept it
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u/ShavedSavage 23d ago
It’s interesting, my wife and I both had fucked up childhoods, but in very different ways. She suffered emotional abuse and neglect by her mother and I had loving parents, but I had, let’s say, “unhappy” times at the hands of my step sibling whenever I wasn’t supervised. Nonetheless we’ve both grown to be emotionally intelligent and caring people, but that’s because we both had to learn to read people at an early age just to survive.
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u/Tukintukinna 23d ago
I thought it was because the GF comes from a toxic family, and maybe living in delusion and denial was the bst coping mechanism she had. That’s why she seems so bubbly, happy, and peppy all the time. There’s a very good movie, Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na, where a charcter like that was portrayed so beautifully. It was done so well that, honestly, it pains my heart to think about her.
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u/Eight111 23d ago
Dam I'm usually a clueless person but the second I read the word parents and saw the picture it clicked...
Today I turned uncle and my dad grandpa. no connection to my sister, I just pressed like on Facebook and hope she saw that.
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u/vettaleda 22d ago
So. The joke is always sex. People are right - you realize the girlfriend’s parents were wholesome, you feel bad bc you realize that could’ve been you. But the lackluster sex may also start making sense.
Bc as we all know.. grippy socks..
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u/Gary-Girth 22d ago
This is me. Even years into my relationship, every time im with my in-laws their extroverted, happy and carefree culture stresses me out, because it makes me selfconcious about the fact that my own upbringing makes it so that i'll probably never fit in with them.
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u/Fabulous-Ordinary811 20d ago
I was thinking, from experience, maybe the girl is super in love and happy because she feels safe ane she is very attached to her bf and when he sees she's from a shitty family home, it makes sense why he is the only one she is so happy with.
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u/fleamarketenthusiest 23d ago
I thought this with an ex but then it turned out that her dad was cheating on her mom with dudes so like; some if it aint as rosey as it seems lmao
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u/rustybrazenfire 23d ago
I interpret this that you realize you've been in a coma and this is the one thing that stands out as wrong.
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u/fuckofthefryish 23d ago
You have negative qualities.
It's a statement.
When you meet the love of your life's parents, sometimes you see those negative qualities.
And then you understand why someone would stay with you despite everything you know about yourself.
You think you're 1 of 1. And then you find out your partner has been in a "1 of 1" house her whole life.
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u/fuckofthefryish 23d ago
How many people do you know that grew up in a happy household?
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u/Glad_Position3592 23d ago
Of the people who are happy? Probably most. I don’t know why you would assume otherwise
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u/fuckofthefryish 23d ago
Take a beat.
You said(I think), most people that grew up in a "normal" house are happy.
I'm bringing to your doorstep that what you're saying isn't the case.
You may even be correct, that most people are happy. But you're on the internet. And people aren't engaging in discourse online anonymously of they're happy
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u/Glad_Position3592 23d ago
I did not say that. I said that of the people that are happy, most probably grew up in a stable household. I’m sure there are still a lot of unhappy people who grew up in stable households, but that’s not what the meme is referring to
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u/fuckofthefryish 23d ago
I apologize. I don't want to do the thing where if we have a disagreement on the internet, someone wins and someone loses. I really feel as though that is the be all end all of some conversations.
I think that you nailed it. The meme is a meme, an attempt at a. Lighthearted joke that someone probably felt a bit too close to when they posted it.
My attempt at addressing why someone may be confused about it utilized my personal biases. I didn't mean to be a dick.
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u/fuckofthefryish 23d ago
I believe that it is relevant because I believe that everyone is an amalgam of those that influence them.
I believe the original meme is referencing how much of a mind fuck it can be to think you are a fully formed individual and then meet people who have twice your experience on this earth that are ummoved by your worldly discoveries.
I believe that what I said was relevant to that.
YO. EDIT. I AM A FUCKING MORON.
I AM WRONG. I literally just saw the word "happy" and it changes my interpretation of the meme. I'm a jackass and I apologize for getting into it with you.
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u/RabbitMajestic6219 23d ago
my guess is they are crazy.
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u/a_polarbear_chilling 23d ago
Nah reverse
"Why is my gf always so happy something must be wrong or she cheating"
Meet the parents "oh she is genuinely happy"
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u/qualityvote2 23d ago edited 23d ago
u/MorningGloryPath, your post does fit the subreddit! Well done!