some of my earliest memories are lying in bed in terror waiting for the sound of my abusive fathers work truck to pull into the driveway. I got to where like a dog i could identify his specific truck as soon as it was in audible range. Sometimes I could pretend to be asleep and I might get left alone a while.
It’s many decades later, I live in a very safe place and the patriarch who rules the roost here doesn’t even raise his voice much less hit me. All the same i get a sharp spike of fear every time he pulls up in the driveway. It took me a few years of work and therapy to be able to stay downstairs and not have to flee upstairs when he got home.
It’s shameful how many people’s first bullies are the people they need to look to for safety. It really breaks you.
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Funny story, this is one of the major reasons I filed for divorce.
MycarHolmes@quokk.au 2 months ago
That... wasn't funny at all!
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, it sure wasn’t!
Empricorn@feddit.nl 2 months ago
Maybe they were married to a clown?
Ediacarium@feddit.org 2 months ago
Why were you married to your mom?
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Insert “deliverance” banjo music here.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
What would life be like if you could file for other people’s divorces?
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Have you ever told a funny family story and everyone around you recoils in horror?
Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
you learn not to after a while.
mineralfellow@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like when our dog died, my dad tanned the hide, wore it as a cape, and played with the other dog?
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
We all have our own contexts for what is “normal.”
faltryka@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah same. Filed two weeks ago.
ephrin@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Good for you. Hang in there, it’s worth it.
motor_spirit@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Can’t believe you were with my ex you ol stud 😏
IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 2 months ago
😂