My parents force me to go to churches for Easter

In short, I (17nb) am an atheist, my parents know this, and they force me to go to church every year for Easter and I absolutely hate it. I have experessed several times my dicomfort with religion and church but my mom says I have to go for my stepdad, Dave's sake and "spending time as a family," whatever that means. Cause in all honesty, CHURCH IS NOT SPENDING TIME WITH FAMILY. It is being forced to all just sit next to each other in uncomfortable silence while some random old guy talks at us about how we'll all go to hell if we dont pray, marry the opposite sex, and give them money. You want to spend time together, Dave? Maybe don't be a workaholic obsessed with money and do something your children are actually interested in?? And it's not like I don't make plenty of other sacriffices for me family either. I babysit all the time, canecel plans for them, make dinner, do dishes, clean up after my siblings (who are 5 and 7, theres a big age gap), take care of myself in this fucking disgusting house, and I am still expected to be the perfect student and be happy as a fucking ray of sunchine all the time and IM SO SICK OF IT. And my mom just outright objecting my attempts to calmy reason and compromise at church just really shows how little she cares about my opinions. And that shit hurts, man, cause not only has a lot of my dad's side of the family been weird about me being gay and not religious and all, now I gotta deal with my mom too?? She was alsways the chill one but now idfk. Her words were "It's important to Dave and we don't make you go to church often. We let you decide what to do with your time otherwise, which a lot of kids dont have. You can deal with it for an hour a year." Oh yes, thank you for doing what a parent SHOULD do??? Like not controlling your child when theyre literally almost an adult?? I should be able to make my own decisions about my beliefs and choose what's best for me. And being put in a situation that is going cause me extreme mental distress and discomfort just because Dave only cares about jesus and not the rest of his family is not only unfair to me, but NOT MY PROBLEM. You'd think, for a woman so obsessed with me staying home a visiting a ton during college, my mother would maybe not activelly push her child away via guilt tripping, gaslighting, and manipulating me into doing whatever she says cause she can get her shit together enough to do anything other than just mope about how much I'm "betraying her and my family." But I'm too fucking tired to fight her anymore so ig I'll just have to go to the freaking church and want to puke the entire time. Yayyyy. So fun.

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August Religion April 19, 2025 at 7:16 pm 1 0