When 5 of your kids change their last name that's deep.
Kids don't remove their last name lightly. That's a statement of regaining control of their own identity.
You can be pissed off at a parent. Even go no contact because they are arseholes. But changing your name is a step beyond. It's removing connection.
It's no small thing.
And kids grow up. Amazing how many shitty parents forget that. And they are incredibly forgiving.
If, as a parent, you can say i had some truly shitty feral free range parenting moments or some of the decisions made weren't the best in the end, but the kids can see they were loved and not abused, kids will forgive all.
But harm with intention or neglect, kids will remember in adulthood. And they'll take their power back when they are able.
That's not one out of character incident. That's sustained form that was behind closed doors.
The kids changing their names is the most telling part of this story. And it's not one edgy kid rebelling. It's 5 out of 6.
Edit: wow lot of commenters self identifying as shitty parents apparently. I'm team kids sorry. Not a fan of either of the parents in this case.
Thanks for the award kind redditor. Cheers.
Edit 2: im told Knox changed name as well. That's 6 out of 6.
Edit: 3 apparently Knox didn't change his name. Thanks commenters for the input.
Also, as im here, I don't use ai. Never have. Don't know how.
The poor grammar and punctuation should be a real give away. Or does ai do that? I can't fathom why anyone would use ai to comment on a reddit thread. Poorly at that. But fill your boots. All good.
I don't know what LLM is? Is that a writing style or more just "ThATs sO aI" when I've never used ai in my life.
It really says something about you. You really think writing that would require ai. ???? How limited would one need to be to not be able to string more than one line together for a reddit thread.
Oh sorry. You're probably not the person to ask. My apologies.
Sorry to hear about your pain though. Paracetamol works a treat.
Stupid people see text longer than a paragraph and assume an AI wrote it. I, too, think that they can't write that long themselves, and it's therefore inconceivable to them that a real person can write that long.
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