Today, my son asked me, "If it’s so easy to tear meats like raw chicken breast and beef steak apart with your hands, doesn’t that mean it’s just as easy to tear human flesh apart, even if they’re still alive?" This right here is why I send him to therapy twice a week, but it’s not working. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my husband gave our three-year-old son a lesson on life and death. He did this by slaughtering our pet chicken for dinner in front of him. My son has been crying for hours. FML
Today, I tried to talk to my teenage son about healthy masculinity. He said, "Yeah Mom, I know. Lift weights and eat red meat and fish. Can I go?" Not what I meant at all. FML
Today, my 27-year-old son told me that for him, eating a food he doesn’t like is “way, way worse” than breaking a bone. He has broken both his arms, several ribs, and a few of his toes, and he still thinks that. FML
Today, my ex had the bright idea of trying to bond with our son by taking him to a UFC fight. Our son is only 8 and autistic. It’s been hours and he hasn’t stopped crying about the "big scary men that kept hurting each other." FML
Today, I found out why my son has been working out and taking martial arts classes. It was so he could beat his stepbrother up and put him in the hospital, as revenge for stealing his secret cash supply, over £4000. I'm too old and too tired for this. FML
Today, my son’s mother is dying. He told me he feels “nothing at all” because of it. The reason? “Sometimes she punished me.” FML
Today, my wife is furious with me because I would rather our teenage son see a counselor instead of a psychiatrist. I want our son to learn healthy coping mechanisms for life, not just take pills to make everything go away. FML
Today, my son confessed to me that the reason he'd rather die single is because my husband and I are so toxic to each other, as we end up arguing over even petty things, yet we still refuse to divorce after 30 years. Therefore, we're to blame for "leaving him traumatized and terrified of marrying". He is 22. FML
Today, my son won't go to his team dinner because the other kids made fun of him for "eating like a monkey." My wife says this is my fault. Funny, when I tried to teach him not to eat with his fingers, she got mad and ranted that "people ALL OVER THE WORLD eat with their fingers, it's normal, stop criticizing him!" FML
Today, I apparently didn’t teach my son the difference between defending himself from bullies and knocking out the bully's teeth, breaking his nose, cracking his ribs, and grinding his fingers under his boot until the bone splintered. Yes, the cops are involved and my ex-wife blames me, of course. FML
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clumzrino 9
At least he’s wrong, raw meats don’t fight back. Living bodies retaliate and don’t allow themselves to be stretched beyond their limits willingly.
lalalaila777 24
the correct answer is yes, so that's why we treat humans with tenderness as we should with animals. though many societies treat animals inhumanely (including those used as food sources) and wonder why humans are becoming desensitized to horrible atrocities seen as normal.
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Comments (7)
mattiagardin 15
Shit parenting right there
Anderling 33
A different therapist maybe? Oof, I’m so sorry.
JackWood 21
That's pro level therapy needed here. Just ask Jeffrey D.
RichardPencil 32
Why bother with a therapist? Just send him straight to prison. If he still has homicidal urges, it's likely his victim in the hoosgow deserves such an end.
clumzrino 9
At least he’s wrong, raw meats don’t fight back. Living bodies retaliate and don’t allow themselves to be stretched beyond their limits willingly.
lalalaila777 24
the correct answer is yes, so that's why we treat humans with tenderness as we should with animals. though many societies treat animals inhumanely (including those used as food sources) and wonder why humans are becoming desensitized to horrible atrocities seen as normal.
emmalou 19
I wouldn't worry about it, sounds like a future scientist