Honey , you need to spend some quality time on rraisedbynarcissists Your parents sound awful . They ' re not just treating you like a child , they ' re ABUSING you . And it is WRONG . The way they are treating you is wrong . This is not your fault . If a stranger treated you like shit like this , would you just let them ? Absolutely not ! Being blood related doesn ' t give someone the right to abuse you . If anything , being blood related should make people less likely to abuse you sadly that ' s not true , as we see here all the time . If you wouldn ' t allow stranger to treat you like this , why on earth should your family get away with it ? This is not your fault and continued contact with them is only going to harm you and your husband and son further . They don ' t respect you . And they don ' t even care that they don ' t respect you . It legitimately doesn ' t bother them at all . And that ' s a problem . You do not deserve to be treated like this . I am so sorry you ' re going through this . I read your other posts about thanksgiving being your favorite holiday and your birthday is this month and I can only imagine how much harder that makes it . You may need to take a good bit of time to grieve . You ' re experiencing a loss . That dream we all have of a big happy family is dyingdead , and it is important to grieve that . It ' s a perfectly normal thing to want and realizing you ' re never going to get it is incredibly hard . But we ' re here for you . You ' re so strong . It took incredible strength to stand up to them like you did . It took incredible strength to demand the respect you deserve and to leave when they refused to treat you like a person . You ' re so strong already . I just want to give you all the hugs in the entire world right now .