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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let’s see… Outwardly we were a normal family. Internally, my dad ruled by the belt. Anything could set off his trigger and we would be severely beaten. My sister wouldn’t get off the phone with her friends, so he broke her arm. My brother was caught watching tv after it was bedtime and my dad slammed his head so hard against the wall it went through the drywall. My mom was psychologically manipulative, if we really loved her we would do this, and whenever we didn’t perform up to her expectations it was somehow because we didn’t love her enough.  Everything revolved around her.
When all of my brothers and sisters had left the house, and it was just my mom, dad, and me, I would simply walk out the door whenever he flew into a rage. So he brutally beat my mother, and she finally left him. Except that was bittersweet. He beat us for years as she watched, or even encouraged, the beatings. Yet the moment he beats her, and she walks out.
You don’t know what goes on behind closed doors.[/quote]

I believe you. Mil has some close friends, and these friends are known to be so sweet and kind. Of their 5 kids, ALL have cut them off. Well I won’t say cut off entirely but very distant. 
Mil can’t believe their bad luck. Mil has one child like this (my bil), and she truly didn’t do anything different or wrong with him. So she talks about how you just don’t know when your kids grow up how close they will want to be. It’s true you might have one or two that don’t care to be close...but then she talks about her friends’ bad luck.

I think other stuff must have gone on as they were raising their children. Some kind of physical or emotional abuse hat they hide behind a sweet exterior. [/quote]

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