@thepottymouthguru: Some daughters learn very early: 👉 If I need comfort, I have to comfort myself. 👉 If I need encouragement, I have to encourage myself. 👉 If I need protection, I have to protect myself. 👉 If I need reassurance, I have to provide it myself. Over time, they become: - resilient - capable - resourceful - independent - emotionally intelligent - competent People admire them. People rely on them. People assume they're fine. What often goes unseen is the loneliness underneath. Because being able to take care of yourself is not the same thing as being cared for. Then adulthood can look like: - hyper-independence - difficulty receiving support - difficulty trusting support - overfunctioning - exhaustion - feeling disappointed when people don't show up - struggling to lean on others The wound isn't that she couldn't take care of herself. The wound is that she had to. Some daughters became so good at mothering themselves that nobody noticed they still needed a mother. ❤️🤟🏻🌿 #unfuckyourself #thepottymouthguru #attachmentstyles #motherwound #childhoodtrauma ❤️
or leaning on others means you're now indebted to them because needing help was always an accruing debt your parents used to make you feel guilty.
2026-06-09 18:34:02
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aaxntel :
'we don't have to worry about you because you always find your way out'
2026-06-09 16:19:34
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La_Cabra_Loca :
I stopped waiting for someone else to do it. So I decided to do it myself. This allows me to have better relationships with people around me and not feel too much. 😏
2026-06-25 13:38:16
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Moonbunny :
On the eldest daughter, I just turned 40. I've from surprise birthday parties, baby showers, everything under the sun for everybody else. But I have never received a party thrown just for me. For my fortieth I hired my own magician, because I deserve a little bit of magic in my life.And if nobody else is going to do it for me, i've learned, I gotta do it for me, myself
2026-06-09 19:47:19
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thisnewoldlife :
My mom once told me she knew I’d be ok so she didn’t worry about me, and I can’t remember a time I haven’t felt so alone, even when I was married.
2026-06-09 21:23:29
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Charlotte Yelena :
It’s so weird because I wanted people to see how hard I had it but at the same I didn’t them to pity me
2026-06-09 15:31:59
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greyrockai :
the part that gets me is how the competence backfires. she got so good at handling it alone that everyone just... filed her under "fine." the better she did it, the less anyone saw the need. that's not a skill that earned her care. it's the thing that hid it.
2026-06-09 16:59:50
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djoj :
As a man, I am that daughter too. "Nobody's coming..."
2026-06-10 12:20:10
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Mouthy Broad :
I ended up one step beyond this - I became my mother's mother
2026-06-10 00:31:58
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Winderellaaa :
I literally just wanted my mom
2026-06-09 22:14:33
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Nana :
Oh my god. OH MY GOD ???! 😳😳
2026-06-09 18:48:10
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paulinecienna :
Soo… now what? 🫠
2026-06-10 17:04:52
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Eli travels back in time :
yes.
and when I do accept help from someone the shame and embarrassment follows me (sometimes for years!)
2026-06-10 10:00:58
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cb03px :
When no one is reliable, you can only rely on yourself.
2026-06-10 15:55:42
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Kwakhanya :
I’ve realised I am jealous of people who are cared for by their moms
2026-06-10 20:36:22
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courtnahhelizabeth :
I’m 35 and I still hug myself when I cry
2026-06-25 15:36:20
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myrigotchi :
Hopper independent, over-functioning, and very very sad inside. I remember this very well.
2026-06-10 13:05:45
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searchingformyself😇 :
That's why I love the book Coraline by Neil Gaiman, because it shows how she can be her own hero in her story.
2026-06-12 21:59:12
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💜Sarah🪻 :
And that’s how I ended up in healthcare lol 😭
2026-06-10 00:10:43
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DoveQ :
Im the eldest daughter , my mom was the one in the middle with 9 siblings. Her mom, never mother her, so yes she is like this. But she also struggle very much to mother me. It’s a cycle.
2026-06-10 23:28:53
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Toast :
when my mother asked why I didn't want children I told her I already raised myself and didn't want to do it again. she tried to deny it but every year (usually around my birthday) she shows me how unreliable she is and how I have always had to manage everyone's emotions while being let down 😅
2026-06-10 00:50:51
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kemkem :
jokes on you I planned on crying today
2026-06-09 16:28:46
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Caroline 🫶🇸🇪🫶 :
At 11 I realized no one would be there for me, especially emotionally. If I had not met the most amazing husband I don’t thing I would have ever trusted anyone to be there for me.
2026-06-10 03:25:34
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.. :
Except I look for it in people who don’t want to give it to me
2026-06-09 23:06:05
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Walker 1956 :
going to therapy...means I constantly want to take care of my therapist because I just dont feel the care enoigh:D
2026-06-10 15:54:49
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