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Amber Portwood has a protracted historical past of not taking accountability for her actions.
This historical past inevitably consists of reactions of utmost outrage when anybody remembers her misdeeds. She feels that she is entitled to forgiveness, it doesn’t matter what.
Sadly, which means watching Leah exclude her from her sixteenth birthday celebration and cross on her present despatched Amber right into a rage spiral.
She might say that she’s carried out with Teen Mother, however she isn’t carried out watching and angrily reacting on social media.
Although Amber Portwood says that she’s carried out with ‘Teen Mom,’ she’s nonetheless tuning in
Amber Portwood continues to be watching Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, presumably in order that not less than one of the viewers might be sympathetic to Amber’s aspect of issues.
This meant that she watched Leah have fun turning 16. She celebrated this milestone birthday with out Amber, whom she very understandably didn’t need there.
Leah mentioned her “abandonment issues” courting again to age 8 (which barely scratches the floor on Amber’s entire deal). And she or he additionally rejected the present and the cardboard that Amber had despatched over.
Confronted with such a scene, many mother and father may specific the guilt that they really feel for having a baby who has spent half of her life conscious that their mother shouldn’t be absolutely current in her life.
That … was not the emotional course that Amber chosen.
Taking to TikTok reside, which is kind of all the time a mistake, Amber shared: “I’m feeling emotional right when it comes to what I just saw.”
‘Those aren’t boundaries’ shouldn’t be a great way to respect boundaries
One of many replies — once more, this was reside — famous that Leah Shirley had created some very legitimate boundaries for herself.
“No, she didn’t,” Amber spat in response. “Those aren’t boundaries. I’m her mother. It’s disrespect.”
Fairly famously, narcissists dislike boundaries as a result of they signify a lack of management.
(One additionally has to ask … in what manner does Amber imagine that she deserves particular ranges of respect from anybody, not to mention Leah?)
Amber continued her rant, demanding: “What? Did I beat her? Is that what I did? Is that what you’re saying.”
Nicely … along with bodily assaulting each of her child daddies, teen Amber is proven on digicam encouraging Gary Shirley to hit the then-very-young Leah. (Gary didn’t reply positively to this demand)
It might even be value noting that parenting shouldn’t be the story of the Billy Goats Gruff. You don’t get a cross as long as there’s a worse father or mother — or a billion worse mother and father — on the market.
“Nobody’s told me to be accountable, darling!” Amber raged on TikTok. “Did you do time in prison? Did you do my time in prison?”
See, nobody understands how arduous Leah’s childhood has been on Amber
“Did you sit and talk with my daughter and sit down with her and let her know that you were an addict and everything that happened to you?” Amber’s rant went on.
“Were you … in my shoes when I had to sit there and go through everything I had to do?!” she requested. “Were you paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to be in your children’s lives?”
Making a maybe too-on-the-nose analogy, Amber insisted: “I’ve done nothing in my life, darling, then try to be in my daughter’s life and was pushed out like a cancer!”
Nonetheless, as you possibly can see right here, Amber ultimately modified her tone in a follow-up TikTok Reside video.
“I didn’t see what her reaction was,” Amber stated tearfully, having watched the scene the place Leah rejects her present and card. “It’s the only thing in my life, guys, that hurts me.” Clearly.
“I just want to see my daughter,” Amber lamented. She continued: “It’s so hard. I don’t want to make this [Live] for anybody else.”
‘Teen Mom’ followers simply haven’t seen how good of a mother she’s been (in secret)
“I promise. My hand on the Bible, I did. [I was] consistent, I promise,” Amber insisted, claiming that she was mother in ways in which viewers have by no means seen. She continued: “I did exactly what she wanted. I came when the cameras weren’t there, when she brought that up, I promise.”
She claimed: “I’ve got so many pictures and so many videos that I’ve never posted of us together. Just to keep her from not feeling embarrassed.”
Naturally, among the commenters steered to Amber that her emotionally unstable rants on social media may additional alienate Leah. Amber was not inclined to take their recommendation. Maybe that’s for one of the best, for Leah’s sake.
