/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>tfw mother attacks you on 2 different social media platforms out of nowhere about stupid, petty things
>i recognize it immediately as a sign that she's stressed about something else and displacing it on me, which doesn't make me feel any better
>tfw your dad is getting it 100x worse
>he gets anxious before every major holiday, anniversary, birthday, etc. because he knows that he will never do something that's good enough for her and she will become mean and nasty and criticize everything he does
>it's emotional abuse and neither of us will outright say it and neither of us will ever do anything about it
>at least I can usually ignore it since I'm a mostly self-sufficient adult (25) in another city
>I can't help but think my dad deserves so much better but he has the classic abused mentality and can't see a way out of it and just sees it as a way of life at this point

I was supposed to work on cosplay tonight but I just got off the phone with my dad because he needed someone to talk to, and I'm just gutted and upset right now. I'm having a beer to try and calm down but even that's not helping. Sage for length and venting.