Middle child decides to move out of toxic parents' home after they treat her like a burden compared to her two brothers: ‘I’m expected to… tolerate my parents' mood swings’

When you're the oldest child, you're expected to lead the herd. When you're the youngest child, you're expected to listen to everyone's rules, regardless of whether the rulemakers are correct or not. When you're the middle child… nothing is expected of you. This might be because you're often the forgotten child. All the middle children out there know how it feels to fall short in comparison to their siblings, even if you've only experienced it once or twice. You can never do enough, yet you do too much at the same time. You're too loud, but when you quiet down, you're too silent. How do you do anything without your parents picking it apart? The middle child, who shares this next story, couldn't navigate this situation effectively, so she decided to make a plan to move out. Needless to say, her toxic parents did not like that idea. How are her parents supposed to get their fix of putting someone down if their middle child gets a move on?

Children, minors or not, cannot safely grow up in emotionally toxic environments. They are not nurtured nearly enough, and this lack of support often follows them and appears in different forms in adulthood. Why is it that a 21-year-old woman is wiser and more emotionally mature than her parents? Then, when she decides to move out, why is she subject to contradictory statements from her parents? Scroll below to read the full story.

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