How much should you respect an emotionally abusive parent?

You should respect him/her as a person but respect your right to be treated fairly even more. How this translates into action would be to recognize the differences between being passive, agressive, and assertive. Being passive means allowing the parent to abuse you while failing to defend yourself - or wose, even believing the abusive words! Being agressive is attacking back and harming the parent thru words or action. The middle ground is assertiveness. Letting the person know that you will not allow him or her to treat you badly. This would be accomplished by assertively letting them know how you feel and asking for behavior change. Easier said then done!! You want to do this without getting furious, but their words likely infuriate you and lead you to respond in anger (aggression). Consider researching for a good book on assertive communication. Since this is your parent (if that is who we are talking about here), you will be stuck with them for many years (unless you chose to cut him/her out of your life). Therefore, learning to assert yourself with this person, without getting furious or behaving in a way that makes the situation worse, is very important. Not neccesarily because the parent deserves to be treated nicely, but because YOU deserve to be healthy - and allowing yourself to be abused, or contantly becoming angry and agressive in response to abuse, is unhealthy. Research suggests that holding in anger is unhealthy, but expressing anger is unhealthy as well. What should a person do? The best response is assertively sharing thoughts and feelings (which may eventually include letting someone know you will no longer have a relationship with them if they continue to abuse you!). Good Luck!!!How much should you respect an emotionally abusive parent?
If the parent continually disrespected me I would disrespect and probably end up hating them. Most parents like this are probably insecure and don't rely on themselves at all. Use that to your advantage so when you grow up you don't repeat that destructive cycle.How much should you respect an emotionally abusive parent?
my mom was like that ..... you can respect just not the abuse ...if you can separate the two... get away from them because it will have long term effect on you ... they need help and you probley do too.... but you have to get away from that situation and let the abuser know that they are hurting you
Yes, do respect them. It seems that you may be thinking this is the wrong answer. But ';do unto oters as you would have others do unto you.'; If you want your parents to respect you, then you should respect them.
Oh dear, that's a tough one. I would politelly voice my concern and ask for it to be sorted out.





If that doesn't work I would report them to the child protection services.





Good luck
you shouldnt respect them at all if they dont respect you.





in the end you learn from them and that is what you have learnt... its their fault.
Not very much. If this person is intentionally doing things to hurt other peoples feelings, then that person is probably self-obsessed.
If too abusive, not at all.





I have absolute contempt for all abuse.
Youb don't