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Showing Original Post only (View all)It's Father's Day. My father is dead and I don't miss him at all. [View all]
He was cruel to me almost as a quest. He tried to break me through punishment, criticism, manipulation of my relationship with my siblings, minimalizing my graduations (3), and trying to hold us out as a happy, perfect family.
I'm not happy that he's dead. I'm just relieved to be free of all that emotional tumult and future threats.
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It's Father's Day. My father is dead and I don't miss him at all. [View all]
no_hypocrisy
Jun 2022
OP
My mother was hateful to me in a similar way. I am quite sure it was not a misguided love.
Scrivener7
Jun 2022
#2
This is insensitive. No-hypocrisy has described an abusive situation, one which was surely
Scrivener7
Jun 2022
#20
This is not a courtroom. You are not a judge or jury. No one has asked you to make a judgement.
Scrivener7
Jun 2022
#32
I know what you mean. At one time, my father decided that saying "I love you" would somehow ...
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2022
#24
I feel the same. My mothers ex biologic partner was not a good man. He left pain & chaos behind
irisblue
Jun 2022
#5
Good for you. You don't know owe cruelty anything. Especially cruelty against a child.
MLAA
Jun 2022
#19
I can sympathize. My dad was not as cruel as all that, but he just didn't like people at all ...
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2022
#23