Bait and switch parents
I'm a 25 year old male
My parents always say how they want to hear from me, and they want to have a better relationship.
However my father will immediately stop listening whenever I talk, he will just want to talk and will be dismissive of anything I say
My mother will always steer the conversation to being about me and try to talk about anything personal with me, and anything I feel negative about. Always trying to get me to talk about feelings I have.
My sisters and my parents as well always see me as the bad one for not wanting a relationship with them anymore.
I'm a sensitive person and I can't deal with the manipulation and their complete lack of acceptance of who I actually am.
I've told them their behavior that bothers me and they deny doing it, or say they don't remember, or they tell me bad things that I do. And then they insist I tell them what they do that bothers me as if these conversations never happened.
The only reason I've interacted with them has been out of guilt, but I now have stopped entirely.