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I don’t know what’s my fault anymore

I have a hard time figuring out what’s my fault anymore. Growing up, everything was my fault because I came from emotionally immature parents. If they made me mad and I expressed that, it was my fault. People would (and still do) only ever listen to me in I’m in tears and crying. But sometimes I’m just mad. But like now, I can’t tell if it’s my fault. If I get into an argument with someone because I was talking loud by habit and they interrupted me, is it my fault cause I was talking loud? I’m unsure if I’m allowed to get upset that they interrupted me mid conversation and cut me off because I was the one being loud. Or for instance I got into a conversation with my mother and she said Chai wrong. I joked about her mispronunciation and she got mad at me saying that I never let things go. But then I pointed out how she does that to me all the time and I thought it was normal because she always did it to me. I feel like I’m at fault because I made fun of her saying it wrong but then it also upsets me when she makes fun of my pronunciation of words. The reason why this matters is because I don’t know if I should defend myself or express my opinion because I don’t know what’s my fault and what’s not. I always end up feeling like it’s my fault then getting upset about it later because I hold onto so much anger.

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toughTiger6481 Wednesday

@drzombienoodles

It is hard to overcome the feeling of internalizing what is our fault or not even IF it is . 

Trouble communicating  should not be assigned fault. Interrupting can be frustrating for whatever reason but instead of trying to figure out who was wrong  take a deep breath and regroup to continue your discussion.  

It just IMO you can unlearn certain  communication behaviors.. I thought of when you spoke of miss pronouncing something I used to have someone that sounds like your mom .... made fun if i did it but was all mad if i pointed out on them.  I can relate.   If they bring up remember when you said etc I do not get mad and start things and just say "oh yeah so what "   stops them from making fun again makes them seem childish and petty. 

You may not have learned to communicate effectively but good news is you can adjust and learn now...  If you feel only heard if loud or upset when you feel yourself doing that take a moment and adjust.   when you are getting mad over how something is going ... taking a moment to reword or realizing everyone makes errors  stop the MAD/ upset and blaming ourselves for something.