Respectfully, NO. Atrocious parental behavior is not just bothersome memories that somehow should be prioritized second to a goal of reconciliation. Reconcili

Respectfully, NO. Atrocious parental behavior is not just bothersome memories that somehow should be prioritized second to a goal of reconciliation. Reconciliation should not be considered a default 'best outcome' for this kind of situation. Children who are parentified (cf. "parentification trauma") or who are subjected to narcissistic parents never get to be little kids, and that trauma affects them in hundreds of different ways that leaves them a brutally incomplete individual. In his television interview, Wheaton noted that the only reason he's alive today is that he did not really know how to kill himself as an adolescent.