Aren't we being a touch melodramatic?

Can you put yourself in a place of total calm? Be nice to YOU. No one is going to hurt you NOW. And then just see how you feel. They cannot ruin anything today, now or any time in the future. Let it go so at least it doesn't hurt you any longer and fill up that empty void by showing love as you would want to be loved. That is the process of healing. They are to be pitied eventually. Don't rush it, just try to move forward.

I am going to assume you are a teenager, and that free labor would be chores? If this is the case, your existence hasn't been ruined and if it has, no one can ruin your existence except for you. If you are an adult and you feel this way, I don't know what to tell you. +5

I wanted to share a similar situation with my step son. He felt unloved, and unfortunately I did not find out about this until after he died. I learned about his feelings from a friend. Some of the things he based his thinking on was totally wrong, for example, he noticed that he was not a beneficiary in my life insurance policy so he thought he was unwanted, but he failed to notice that he was the SOLE beneficiary in my wife's policy, so he had more money left to him that our other children. There were a few other things he was wrong about, but the short story is that he was very loved, and we were very pleased with how he turned out, etc. Unfortunately, he never opened up to us about that, and my wife and I didn't notice that anything was wrong until it was too late. Now I feel awful and wish I would have noticed and had said more and shown him more love, but we just weren't too good at showing love even though we had tons of it for him. I think all children go through a period of feeling like this, and this might be where your head is right now. I hope all works out for the best, but it might take 3 or 4 years to "grow out" of this stage.

Have they said recently that they expect you to love them?