Anyanymous · 2d

I found a lot of the previous "nyan family history time" relatable, but the one thing that surprised me was how despite your mom's insistence that "sex and nudity bad", she insisted on helping her kids with bathing and using the toilet so long past puberty. Do you know her motivation/rationalization for that?

I don't really see much weird with that, but maybe I'm biased (well, other than her methods being extreme of course). We're her kids, she could see us naked, because that's normal, she raised us. But us kids weren't allowed to see other people naked- my father did take baths with us occasionally (which was always a very very uncomfortable experience), but we were also taught never to turn around or look at each other's private places as well. We were just completely coddled and dependent on her, because I think she wanted someone to really love her and "need" her.

I remember in my late teens/20s, after being shamed by other family members when they saw my mother cutting my toenails, I decided to do and cut my nails on my own from then on (I knew how to but she often volunteered anyway and I let her), she was really hurt that she couldn't cut my toenails anymore and felt useless and unneeded and got really depressed over it. She definitely had a complex about needing to be "needed"..

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