From that list above, I can easily insert my parents, ex-boyfriends, and ex-friends in how they treated me.

When I bought my first car I was 18. My dad refused to let me pay the lender directly. He demanded that I write HIM a monthly check in my car payment amount. Didn't make sense to me at all. When I told him I didn't trust him, he would scream at me, then get my mom to scream at me, and would threaten to drive my car back to the dealership. That was not normal behavior at all. He definitely treated me as an inferior person.

When I accepted a job abroad after college, my mom invited my cousins over for a party. But instead of being happy for me, she used the party to openly shame and criticize me for taking the job abroad and belittle me for being excited that I got accepted to teach abroad for a year. She did to me until the day I left. At the airport, as I was about to board my plane, in front of my siblings and my two friends who came with me to the airport, she threatened me that she'd tell everyone in the family I was a loser, that she would disown me. It was ridiculous. Just ridiculous. I still got on the plane and had a great adventure for a year. But who the hell acts that way with their own grown child? A mentally ill parent, that's who.