Feeling broken because my dad doesn't believe in me
My dad's sister is one of the most disgusting small minded woman I have ever met (there are two), she comes home and starts babbling about marriages and shit and comes at me (21 F), says career and all can be built later on, it takes a year or two to find a good groom and that is the best time to get married, and to my surprise my dad started agreeing to that and it was one of the most shocking things i had witnessed, she says if your career is nothing special then what is the point of delaying marriage etc and those words scared tf out of me, later my mom who also got frightened by the situation takes me aside and asks me to get independent asap as my family doesn't really care about their women and don't really support them much, she also confided that my dad doesn't really think I will be able to excel anywhere and thinks my degree is a waste of time, the sentence broke my heart, I did know somewhere that he doesn't really think I am special or smart but hearing those words was painful, I just feel broken and shitty. P.S- I am in my fourth and final year of my course, i am also doing a work from home internship that I got all by myself, it's in a startup but at least it's something and I am doing good work too but I have never felt this low about myself than i have today. Don't really know how to gather myself and my thoughts, thank you for listening to my vent.
Posted Oct 22, 2025, 5:15 PM UTC