THIS. You don't know it's abuse if it happens every day & is your normal. I didn't know until I escaped to college. I made it despite their attempts to sabotage it by throwing away my FASFA, my welcome packet, my scholarship info, my dorm sign-up. They threatened me until my mid-thirties.
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it was even worse than i gave it credit for earlier and i had entirely blacked it out since "it got better".
my brother rounding a corner and pointing at me just sitting there watching the small tv in the back room and my dad starts slapping confused me around.
its not really a wonder why i have a dissociative disorder anymore.
and yeah, getting beat for asking for a second small slice of my own birthday cheesecake was fun.
theyve helped me financially a lot in the last ten years, and occasionally emotionally, though they are still pretty distant.
its really complicated and im doing my best to process it without losing the relationship that has developed...