#emotionally distant parents

[cerleansky]

I think the hardest thing about having parents who didn’t express affection is letting yourself be loved. It took me a long time to realise my friends do want to spend time with me, celebrate my birthday, hug me when I achieve something.

My best friend tells me she loves me all the time and the world doesn’t end.

It feels revolutionary to embrace these acts of love even if it’s temporary, even if the people in my life aren’t forever.

#friendship #platonic #love #spilled heart #spilled words #affection #emotionally distant parents #friends #emotions #lots of love

[itstimetofall]

Silent rooms and unspoken words

A quiet house, like a flightless bird

Echoes of emptiness, in every space

A reflection of a love, that can't find its place

Emotionally absent, is what they seem

A love that's distant, like a forgotten dream

Fingers untouching, like two distant shores

An ocean between us, like never before

Years go by, without a heart-felt word

A bond forgotten, as if it's never occurred

A love that's lost, in the depths of time

A parent-child relationship, in desperate climb

The pain is real, and the loss is great

A yearning for love, that's sealed by fate

Emotionally absent, a scar that runs deep

A wound that's left, for our hearts to keep

yeah same friend again

#poem #poems #poetry #short poem #daily poem #writing #distantparents #emotionally distant parents #neglectful parents #bad parenting #poem about depression

[otakubimbo]

Hey! Can I request for an angst romance with the very first sentence prompt with Satoru? They break up but Satoru refuses to believe that it actually happened and that it was only a joke. Like, he is in denial about it.

Hi anon! You're my first official request so thank you! I hope I did this prompt justice for you. My heart hurts.

angsty romance prompt. "tell me it was a lie, tell me you're playing with me right now "

Warnings: None really, just angst and no happy ending, which yes is so unlike me but we ball! I didn't proof read cause it made me sad writing it.

“Tell me it was a lie. Tell me you’re playing with me right now!” Satoru’s voice was at a higher level than it should being at this café. The people around pretending not to be easy dropping on the conversation that you and the man across form you were having.

“Lower your voice, people are staring.” The hushed tone of your voice, attempting to not betray the facade you were putting on.  This wasn’t easy for you, breaking up with Satoru Gojo, if anything you were breaking your own heart.

“How do you expect me to react when my girlfriend brought me out to lunch to break up with me?!” His tone is harsh, in a way you have never heard before. You flinch at his abrasiveness, making him shrink back into his chair.

Satoru’s anger and disbelief confuse you. It was as if everyone saw the signs of this impending breakup but him. The relationship had been going downhill for some time now, how could he not see that? How could he not see what he was doing? How couldn’t he see what it was doing to you?

After a year and a half of dating, you told him, you told him you loved him and you meant it with every fiber of your soul. It had been six more months since then and he never said it back. You were understanding at first when he didn’t say it back, albeit hurt a little but you knew at least a little of his past and what he has gone through. You could understand that it may be hard for him to tell you he loved you, you knew he loved you because of the way he cared for you and that was enough.

Well, you thought it was enough. After your confession, Satoru didn’t immediately become distant, but it started with small things. He stopped texting you good morning and would only say good night. The small touches, the holding hands, and the comforting hugs became few and far between. Any time you brought it up, he would play it off like nothing was wrong, everything was fine. Then it became as if the two of you were barely even friends, it seemed he was always busy as if he never had time for you anymore. And it hurt, it hurt like hell and even then you kept pushing it off just hoping he would tell you what was going on behind those piercing blue eyes of his but he never did.

That’s what lead to today, the day of your 2 year anniversary. Truthfully, you hadn’t even planned on breaking up with him today but when you sat across from him in the same café that you had your first date at, his eyes never met yours. He didn’t hold your hand across the table, he didn’t kiss your forehead on his arrival, he wasn’t your Satoru.

You could feel the tears threatening to spill as you looked up at him, “Do you know what today is? Or why I asked you here”

His jaw tightened, “It’s Tuesday and I don’t know maybe because I’m your boyfriend and we go to this café a lot.”

Is this all a joke to you? Was he just a joke to you? He knows he hasn’t been the best boyfriend lately and that he’s been a bit distant but that wouldn’t make you break up with him. Would it? You were too kind, too patient, too pure for that, right?

“This is the café that we went to on our first date, two years ago.” You aren’t even facing him anymore when you say that, just reminiscing on a time when it felt as if you were just two kids in love. Satoru froze, not even realizing that he had forgotten. He had been trying so hard to keep you at an arm’s length after your confession that he had seemed to just push you away.  He didn’t even say anything as you turned to him, tears threatening to spill down your beautiful face at any single moment. What had he done?

“Do you even love me, Satoru?”

The question hung in the air, making his mouth go dry. He did, he loved you more than he should and that was the problem. His love for you scared him, you scared him. You didn’t know the power that you held over him; you made him weak. You were his weakness. But he was the strongest, he couldn’t afford a weakness, but he wasn’t strong enough to let you go either. Now here he was, unable to speak the words that have been written into his heart from the moment he saw you.

With a sad smile, you take his silence as your answer gathering your things and leaving you there. His heart shattered as he watched you leave out of the door, fading from his vision. Satoru’s worst fear came true, the strongest was defeated, the strongest was broken by you and it was all his own fault.

#jjk gojo #angst #jjk #jjk x reader #gojo saturo #gojou satoru x reader #gojo x reader #gojo satoru #breakup #heartbreak #no comfort #no happy ending #no happiness #emotionally distant #emotionally drained #jujustu kaisen #emotionally exhausted #emotionally immature parents #jjk fanfic #angsty romance prompts #dialogue prompts #writer prompts #writing prompts

[letteriwillneversend]

having parents that are nothing more than unfriendly strangers wearing familiar voices that say familiar things makes you wonder if there was ever any such thing as home.

it makes you wonder what it might be like to have a bad day and have someone you can call or talk to. what it might be like to have someone you can to for advice or comfort. what it might be like to have a shoulder or lap you can finally rest your head on. what it might be like to have a bowl of cut fruit that spells out unconditional love.

some days i find myself looking for home even when i don’t know what to look for.

#heartbreak #i'm just so tired #orphan #angst #journal #my thoughts #my writing #letters i will never send #abusive parents #tw: abuse #abusive household #distant parents #emotionally exhausted #emotional neglect #where is home and is it mine #what’s that one quote that’s like #i need a mother a father some older wiser being to talk to

[rosalinesurvived]

Fukuzawa being the orphan and Mori being the one with overbearing strict parents makes for such an insane dynamic between them even without the romantic sexual subplot; if Mori meets Fukuzawa and goes “Huh wait so people without parents turn into at the very least, decently caring, compassionate people? Wack”

And that’s when the murders started

#fukuzawa gives off ‘only son of an emotionally distant father’ vibes to me but him being the orphan here… #to me! to me #mori though wooo it is uptight homophobic parents fr #fukuzawa yukichi #president fukuzawa #mori ougai #fukumori #bsd #bungo stray dogs #zenki soukoku #zskk

[katyspersonal]

1 Insight: Djura's third companion is Josef

15 Insight: Josef is just a cooperator variant of the NPC type 'Izzy's Successor', Djura's third companion is that corpse you pick Charred Set from

40 Insight: 'Djura's companion' might not even necessarily mean Powder Kegs. For example, Djura's Ally doesn't have any Powder Kegs weapons but is clearly included! Even then, there were multiple Powder Kegs, why just three specific ones? Maybe 'companions' refers to his polycule divorces closest friends or whatever. Could that mean Bestial Hunter who is from Oto Workshop (beta Powder Kegs workshop)? Could that mean Valtr since his weapon was made in Powder Kegs? Could that mean Izzy? Who knows!

60 Insight: Djura's third companion is an OC spot because developers forgor/had no time and we've been doing blue curtains effect this whole time

99 Insight: Djura's third companion is a Blood-Starved Beast that Djura's Apprentice fights with, they left Old Yharnam together and this one was poisoned with Ashen Blood all along and eventually turned

0 Insight: You've been fighting Brainsucker in Upper Cathedral Ward's corridor for too long lol

#eheheheh hehehegee e ehheheh #bloodborne #retired hunter djura #powder kegs #also yeah I know that BSBs are very likely female #but 1) not 100% solid and #2) basically djura said 'this is my boyfriend [djura's apprentice name] and this is my boyfriend's girlfriend [BSB's name]' #okay a cuter idea is that BSB and djura's apprentice were a couple and djura was an authority for both but also best friend #I don't know the right word for this type of relationship? like imagine if Maria and Adeline were also close to Gehrman while being a coupl #and he looked after both and cared a lot about both of them but not in third wheel way like in platonically involved way #'parental figure' is not correct when it is a couple and not like found/adopted siblings I think lol #but 'authority figure' is too emotionally distant term to describe what it entails #but yes you see what I mean! #I am pretty sure there is a good word for it and I am being like a guy that called aquarium a liquid zoo help fdhhdfsds #bloodborne headcanons

[filmnoirsbian]

Discovering I have written just as much if not more poetry abt complicated father feelings than mother feelings....no one is more shocked than me

#it's like yes by virtue of u being the parent that did not emotionally and physically abuse me i still love u #no i have not spoken to u in 3 months and u have no idea what my life is like or who i am as a person #yes i think of u fondly. no i do not really care if we have a relationship or not bc u have been emotionally and physically distant my whole #life. i will send u a text saying happy father's day and u may say thank u and we will not speak for another 6 months #the fault in the father #tcp

[tomboyyyaoi]

autistic meryl is still my ride or die hc

#bc its literally not just 'shes autistic bc im autistic and i say so' #like theres so much in the source material to back me up here #like its a recurring thing that she doesnt know how to verbalise/communicate her feelings so she just doesnt #theres parts where she goes non verbal #in the jp version she has an incredibly feminine/formal way of speaking which i know is a trait for some autistic people #shes very emotionally repressed #she presumably has little social life outside of work #her relationship with her parents/dad is wobbly bc of previously stated emotional expression issues #<- also bc she gets too caught up in work to think about trying to communicate with her dad #<- and cries over worries of her dad thinking her selfish or distant for it even though she didnt mean it #like bro she is so autistic. 2 me

[anglerflsh]

objectively my parents could always be worse but my mother in christ it is no wonder I have never had the slightest emotional attachment to you two freaks

#[.txt] #my father went off to sea on the week of my exams and my mother decided to yell about me not getting 110/100 #i get that the 'emotionally distant parents' is inherited from two centuries ago but can you not it is so tiring #sm sm why are they convinced on living like there's a victorian compromise in italy you two are insane #on god going off to the monastery next year best decision I have ever made. Ci vediamo Tartaruge #that's misspelled #man.

[cerleansky]

Love that binds us in the worst ways

Tomorrow I leave home for a while.

My house will remain a half even and torn ground that shudders every time my father walks.

But, tonight, I have made soup.

I won’t eat it. It’ll be put in the fridge so that it’s good for a little bit.

I’ll leave a note saying ‘make it last!’ because I don’t know if I’ll come back.

It is my father’s favourite.

Let it serve as a reminder that even though I can’t live with him, I want him to eat.

#family #family trauma #trauma #poetry #spilled heart #spilled poem #spilled ink #love #writblr #writing #fathers and daughters #the want for better but knowing it’s too late #emotionally distant parents #emotions #screaming crying throwing up #writers and poets

[apostate-in-an-alcove]

The youngest sibling experience of being made to feel like you're not allowed to have your own feelings and be your own person, of having your own voice stifled, of constantly being forced under the thumb of someone else, of being punished for being independent but also being punished for not being independent enough.

#was it just me #youngest sibling #toxic family #toxic parents #toxic siblings #you always hear about oldest siblings heres a post for the youngest #im not even sure i love my family tbh #they've all been so abusive and toxic to me that I've felt emotionally distant from them for YEARS

[kaitcreates]

Grace and Alastair becoming best friends in Chain of Thorns is one of the only things I want from the book.

#just two kids bonding over their emotionally distant parents that seemed to care more about their sibling then themselves #shadowhunters #the shadowhunter chronicles #the last hours #tlh #grace blackthorn #alastair carstairs

[milf-harrington]

ive had this thing about steves parents sitting in my notes for months and i still havent finished it but bc its been so long ive completely lost my stream of thought so im tempted to just post it as is

#its sort of an analysis sort of a headcanon sort of me taking my own experiences and seeing how it works with steve #its mainly about the struggle of having emotionally distant parents that you get along with most of the time #and then that struggle of hating them when theyre not there but then when they are there youre like 'wait its not even their fault' #and then youre mad at yourself for being unfair to them #but then theyre gone again and you realise all over again that you hate them and you dont understand why they cant just Be There #and like yeah i feel like that kind of relationship would be interesting for steve bc hes got the added stress of the upside down #and his parents being rich and dysfunctional #so he hates them when theyre gone but then he feels guilty bc if they WERE home what if they got dragged into everything to? #hed rather his mum be stopping his dad from cheating than getting eaten by some interdimensional monster #but then also hes just a kid and he has to look after himself and hes been through so many scary things #and his mum wasnt there #what ive actually written is more put together than this but this is the gist of it #steve harrington

[lucy-ghoul]

one thing that must be said about coriolanus and katniss is that they both share such a snarky inner voice that despite the seriousness of thg saga (especially mockingjay - the last chapters almost reduced me to tears, it was that heavy) it made me chuckle more than a few times

#coryo is such a petty bitch tho sjehdhdh #there are interesting similarities but also very stark differences! #1. they both have an obvious fixation on food and their growth was somewhat stunted by malnutrition #2. they both have a special memory token from one of their (dead) parents and are emotionally distant from the other #3. they're both survivors (katniss even describes snow in mockingjay as 'the consummate survivor') but coryo relies on his charm and cunning #(a lot of what he shows outwardly is a carefully trimmed performance) #while she's a born hunter and also quite smart but not a planner (actually i'd say katniss can be quite impulsive sometimes) #but she's also forced to perform (in completely different circumstances and a life or death situation) #and i think that's one of the reasons snow thinks everything that comes out of her mouth is a lie. he's projecting #the major difference so far is obviously that coryo is such a snob asshole lmao #but... unpopular opinion: he doesn't start as evil incarnate and i don't understand how people could come out of tboas with this take #that's the point! he gets corrupted by his own choice #but the boy he used to be (as much as he was a capitol born and bred elitist not exactly endorsed #with a huge capability for emotional depth and human warmth) would be horrified by a lot of the crimes he committed later in his life #so far he's just an annoying teenager. emotionally stunted and not very sincere but not an evil guy by any means #anyway both his and katniss' sarcasm are a++ #val rereads thg #val speaks #val rambles in the tags #txt

[dearestgojo]

I know my mommy issues affect me more than my daddy issues cause all my personal writing is basically about my relationship with my mother. I mean there's no relationship to ruin when you aren't actually present in your child's life.

#my dad only stepping in when my mom would tell him to #as a child i use to love my dad #but then i hit puberty #and he became even more emotionally distant #what's up with dad's doing that to their daughters??? #my mother has just hurt me more emotionally throughout the years #they're genuinely good people just horrible parents

[reignmaefall]

If James Potter is the mom and therapist friend than why haven't I seen any hc of him being emotionally unavailable? He takes care of everyone around him, physically and mentally, but he's built barriers between himself and others. Any question abt his mental health he'll deflect with a joke or flip it around to you. He's constantly compared to the sun but he can't see it, because he's the only person that truly, genuinely, knows what he's like.

#marauders era #marauders #james potter #as a james kinnie i can confirm #hes emotionally distant #and unavailable #hes built walls #and theyre there for a reason #he grew up not wanting to worry effie and monty so he never talked about anything #just sort of kept it in #not in a bad way #just slightly self destructive #it has nothing to do with their parenting #just james being james #and having a fear of worrying people