My teenage daughter laid into me with both barrels last night when I got back from the GIC.
She tends to bully & emotionally abuse me, so I'd decided not to tell my family in advance exactly when I'd be attending the GIC because I wanted to keep my stress levels to a minimum. So I told them when I got home last night. And boy, did my daughter ever react badly.
(Trigger warning): My daughter told me that I'm disgusting. She said that when I wake up from surgery I'll be all on my own because there's no way any of my family will be there to support me (I doubt this is actually true, though). She said that nobody will ever want me and that I will die lonely & alone. She also threatened me with physical violence, even going so far as to approach me with both fists up. If her Dad hadn't been standing right behind her, I do believe she would've become violent.
(End trigger warning)Y'know, the last thing the therapist did at the end of our appointment was to give me a hug and tell me to take care of myself. That hug got me through what my daughter said last night.
I
know that this is just her age speaking; that this is how a hormonal 15-year-old girl copes with the emotional turmoil of one of her parents transitioning. I
know that in 10 years time she'll be much more mature and she'll look back on all this in an entirely different light. Still doesn't make it easy to listen to, though.
