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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My father did this to my mother when I was 8 years old. Announced we were moving across country but at least he was taking a job with another branch of his then employer. In our case it meant leaving all the family we were close to and very close best friends that I and my brother had throughout our early childhood. We also left the best schools in the country and moved to some of the worst, in the bottom five. My brother and I who were both gifted students spent the remaining years of our public schooling being unchallenged and thus underperforming.

I know that sometimes people have to move, but I think it really sucks to move kids around in childhood without very compelling reasons. Childhood is a challenging journey as it is, to be uprooted at some point from all you know and love seems unnecessarily cruel unless the family cannot survive without the move -[b] it shouldn’t be just on a parent’s whim[/b].[/quote]

Your mother should not have agreed. It was on both your parents.[/quote]

If my mother was still alive I’d tell her that. She died about twenty years sooner than her genetic heritage would have suggested, I suspect from the combined effects of enduring 47 years of chronic mental and physical abuse from my father. When I was little I used to lay in my bed at night crying listening to my drunk father raping and beating my mother.

Maybe you should work on cultivating compassion and understanding that your lived experience is not the same as everyone else’s. Some people actually face massive challenges in life, we can’t all have the perfect life you apparently enjoy. [/quote]

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