reasonemotion wrote:SOB, I am not defending your father. Just stating a fact about both your parents. Too young.
You asked if I would stand up to him. If you mean now, that I am an adult. My answer is yes. With a man like your father , the best weapon of defence against him is the intellect and you are more than adequate in that department. Your story is not uncommon and you are entirely blameless, you were a child living on the battlefield of a mother and father. I would try to move forward with this and you are doing so by receiving therapy.
You're right, I just really took offense when you said that being married with children, when so young was so tough, in essence that he deserved some special consideration because of it. The point was that if you think he had it bad, how about me, I mean the way I see it, it's the parents job to suck it up, make concessions, as adults, not the baby's/child's. I also see that being married young was his fault that he couldn't keep his dick in his pants and not fuck a 14 yo minor, that is molestation of a child here, as he was of legal age at the time, i.e., 18 or older. I don't know if you noticed but all his life it was all about fucking and not making love. His current wife is over 20 years his junior, and is the one a saved from drowning, and she was definitely a goner, If I hadn't heard her struggle, which was only splashing, everyone else was sleeping, she'd be dead. That was years ago and even still he stole the money my grandmother had for me in that insurance policy, in my name. Not that he should necessarily have to pay for his concubine, but I just wonder what her life and my testicle was worth, not to mention all the other hardships I suffered at his hands, due to his extreme selfishness, when I'm only asking for honesty truth and fair-play. After living through what I've lived through, I defy anyone to side with him, even ever so slightly, as he's had ample opportunity to set things right, but for his selfishness! Definitely an unfit father, instead of sticking it in women he should have had it chopped off instead.
And as far as standing up to him, I'm serious when I say that he'd kill you, there is no doubt in my mind. You'd be a fool to do so! I'll not die at the hands of an insane person, at least not knowingly.
Yes the therapy is good, but oh so slow, and I'm so old, I'm afraid that it's set in stone by now, I don't know how much I'll be capable of purging through conscious dealing, assuming I'm even capable of pulling the unconscious bits from the recesses of my mind. For example in Psychology class at university in 1994 I found out that wetting the bed was all about fear. But it wasn't until 2010 that I finally had the epiphany that he caused it when I was 4 YO, with him abusing me into unconsciousness, finally at 52 the shame of wetting the bed was erased. And the only reason it was is because I can remember that 4 YO incident, only because it was one that was so traumatic that I've reiterated it over and over and over again for all these years for the ears of various people, and that was only initially because of a cartoon, actually, as funny as that sounds. Have you ever seen a cartoon when the character gets beaned on the head and it shows a black cloud filled with stars or birds flying in circles over their head? Well, since the age of four, while watching one with a friend, I'd say, that's not true, all you see is black, there are no stars or birds, I know because it happened to me. Can you imagine as an adult, how you'd feel hearing a 4 yo baby adamantly defending this argument with all his might in the light of the above story that I've related. A 4 year old is still a baby in my book.
OK let's get off this shit, it's getting old rather fast.
But in closing, what Chaz failed to consider, as to my meaning, was that it's only logical that I be extremely argumentative, considering the story I related, and that he should look into the mirror of his life's reflection, as he may find the reasons he is similar, in stubbornness, to me, especially in the light of his relative truth. It was probably him just harboring vengeance, as I, unfortunately, tend to do. We can usually only see what we, want/are currently able, to see.