I have tried very hard to break the cycle with my own 2 boys. It has been very helpful that my wife grew up in a much healthier household than I did. Nice to have a model.
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I think my parents wanted a big family to fit in with the rest of the community, not because they actually wanted to raise kids. I imagine that motivation is common in religious groups.
I was just having a conversation about how my parents just didn't know how to stop having kids & the woman I was talking to said that her dad said about her mom: "if she's laying down she's asking for it".
When I lived in NC one of my co-workers told me that when she was a young wife she didn't want to have sex with her husband and he said "my dad says I should just rape you".
It’s odd how many times I’ve looked at my kids and then come up with an individualized solution to a problem and then thought of how my parents would have dealt with it and then had a flash of understanding as to how harmful the environment was.
My parents had no clue. They were
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Absolutely horrific.
It’s odd how many times I’ve looked at my kids and then come up with an individualized solution to a problem and then thought of how my parents would have dealt with it and then had a flash of understanding as to how harmful the environment was.
My parents had no clue. They were
We all had to fall in line.