How do you honor bad parents?

Well you look to religion for guidance but you also use common sense at the same time. People who take religious teachings totally literally are being a bit silly because if you are very clever, you can find a phrase or sentence taken out of context that will suit whatever purpose you want. So if you have rubbish parents you have struck bad luck there and you just have to accept it. You may hope for some reconcilliation in the future so it is worth keeping contact but until then just keep your distance.

This is a tough one. From a religious standpoint, my religion mentions honoring your family, both biological and chosen. I have no problems honoring my chosen family, the people who really love and have been kind to me. But the other part is very hard. Usually I think treating them better than they treated me suffices. The very fact that I don't harm them in the same way that they have harmed me shows that I am honoring them, in a way. I am polite but distant. I live a long way away, and that helps with this issue. I might call my mother today, but only if I feel mentally and emotionally up to it.

I am working on that one my self. I have to ask God to love her for me to forgive her for me. I’m going to be asking this of God every day. That will be the first step for me. I don’t know where it will take me from here but I’ll see.

Friend! to be honest with you, such things are not easy to bear, but you just have to give them the best respect you can as a child. Believe me, its not easy, but just keep respecting them. Thanks and have a nice day