Reply #29: I'm quite different from the both of them [View All]

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My mother used to bottle all her anger in (my temper has mellowed a lot over the years). She never took any time for herself, didn't identify her as anything except a mother and wife. She took way too much crap from my father. She was also very religious.

My father was/is an abusive, controlling, misogynist asshole. He lives in a small box where he control and know everything - he is intimidated learning anything new, and would rather not risk looking like he didn't know what he was doing. Big fish in a very, very small pond.