My Horrid Parent

Because of my parents' toxic relationship, my mother's abuse towards me and my father's emotional absence from both the marriage and his relationship with me,  I've never married. 

By the time I was in junior school, my mother hated my father.  She'd rant at me "I wish God would kill your father, He knows just how much I hate him!" on what seemed a daily basis.  Divorce was not an option to her.

For years I didn't want a relationship and the idea of marrying anyone filled me with dread.  I'd love to be loved, appreciated, encouraged and supported by someone who genuinely cares, but that seems a long way away right now.  If I ever do marry, it would be low-key and for him and me.

After my mother died when I was 27, I got rid of her wedding dress and headdress: I simply couldn't stand to have them in the house.

I wish anyone with a Horrid Parent or Horrid Parents all the very best with their relationships, especially if they decide to marry.