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Amber Portwood has an extended historical past of not taking accountability for her actions.
This historical past inevitably consists of reactions of maximum outrage when anybody recollects her misdeeds. She feels that she is entitled to forgiveness, it doesn’t matter what.
Sadly, because of this watching Leah exclude her from her sixteenth party and go on her reward despatched Amber right into a rage spiral.
She could say that she’s done with Teen Mom, however she isn’t carried out watching and angrily reacting on social media.
Despite the fact that Amber Portwood says that she’s carried out with ‘Teen Mother,’ she’s nonetheless tuning in
Amber Portwood continues to be watching Teen Mother: The Subsequent Chapter, presumably in order that at the least one of the viewers shall be sympathetic to Amber’s facet of issues.
This meant that she watched Leah have a good time turning 16. She celebrated this milestone birthday with out Amber, whom she very understandably didn’t need there.
Leah mentioned her “abandonment points” courting again to age 8 (which barely scratches the floor on Amber’s entire deal). And she or he additionally rejected the reward and the cardboard that Amber had despatched over.
Confronted with such a scene, many mother and father would possibly categorical the guilt that they really feel for having a toddler who has spent half of her life conscious that their mother is just not absolutely current in her life.
That … was not the emotional path that Amber chosen.
Taking to TikTok reside, which is kind of all the time a mistake, Amber shared: “I’m feeling emotional proper in terms of what I simply noticed.”
‘These aren’t boundaries’ is just not 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. “These aren’t boundaries. I’m her mom. It’s disrespect.”
Fairly famously, narcissists dislike boundaries as a result of they characterize 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.”
Effectively … along with bodily assaulting each of her child daddies, teen Amber is proven on digital camera 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 is just not the story of the Billy Goats Gruff. You don’t get a go as long as there’s a worse father or mother — or a billion worse mother and father — on the market.
“No one’s informed me to be accountable, darling!” Amber raged on TikTok. “Did you do time in jail? Did you do my time in jail?”
See, nobody understands how laborious Leah’s childhood has been on Amber
“Did you sit and speak with my daughter and sit down together with her and let her know that you simply had been an addict and all the things that occurred to you?” Amber’s rant went on.
“Had been you … in my sneakers once I needed to sit there and undergo all the things I needed to do?!” she requested. “Had been you paying tons of of hundreds of {dollars} to be in your kids’s lives?”
Making a maybe too-on-the-nose analogy, Amber insisted: “I’ve carried out nothing in my life, darling, then attempt to be in my daughter’s life and was pushed out like a most cancers!”
Nonetheless, as you’ll be able to see right here, Amber ultimately modified her tone in a follow-up TikTok Live video.
“I didn’t see what her response was,” Amber stated tearfully, having watched the scene the place Leah rejects her reward and card. “It’s the one factor in my life, guys, that hurts me.” Clearly.
“I simply need to see my daughter,” Amber lamented. She continued: “It’s so laborious. I don’t need to make this [Live] for anyone else.”
‘Teen Mother’ 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] constant, I promise,” Amber insisted, claiming that she was a superb mother in ways in which viewers have by no means seen. She continued: “I did precisely what she wished. I got here when the cameras weren’t there, when she introduced that up, I promise.”
She claimed: “I’ve obtained so many footage and so many movies that I’ve by no means posted of us collectively. Simply to maintain her from not feeling embarrassed.”
Naturally, a few of the commenters instructed to Amber that her emotionally unstable rants on social media would possibly additional alienate Leah. Amber was not inclined to take their recommendation. Maybe that’s for the most effective, for Leah’s sake.
