Lebanese Gen Z Girls and Toxic Parent Relationships
Zusammenfassung
In r/Lebanon, a community member asks whether toxic relationships with parents are common among Gen Z Lebanese girls. The post reflects on emotional abuse, strict restrictions, attachment to parents, and cultural expectations—especially those discussed among Shia Muslim families—and invites others to consider why these experiences can be hard to acknowledge.
Do most gen Z Lebanese girls have a toxic relationship with their parents and refuse to acknowledge it ?
It's a genuine question l've been thinking about, since I finally got to the point at 20yo where I can say I am emotionally abused by my parents (even saying it gives me second hand embarrassment).
But yeah I see all my friends and I feel sorry for the way we have to live. Especially Shia Muslims like some girls are fine with the expectations put on them but the ones I'm around just have to navigate the love and attachement we're made to feel towards our parents, to the point we can never run away (like white ppl might be able to do since they have a bit more of a detachement most of the time) with the lack of freedom and senseless restrictions. It also feels like this is excused by the fact our parents blessing is the most important thing in life.
I don't know if it's a me thing or the few Lebanese girls I know but its genuinely so sad that this is normalized and we're made to be ashamed of the victim mentality so much that we can't even bring ourselves to acknowledge it.
I can cite a thousand reasons why my parents are good people and typically not the type that you would think harm their child, but I could also tell you how they prevent me from the simplest joys because of their constant need for control.
Post Author: /u/pussyslayer2point0
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