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Day 6 in Nutjob-Land:

I told them that in my house, screaming at the top of their lungs was standard mode of communication for my parents, but I wasn't allowed to open my mouth or I paid the consequences. Someone asked, "but what about when you were older, maybe high school age?" I said that by the time I was in high school, I was having to get in between my parents because they would hold knives against each other's throats while they screamed at each other (true story).

You should have seen the looks and heard the gasps. It blew me away! I guess I don't see how disordered it must have sounded, because that's just the way it was.
Candy

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Hi Candy,

I have been working on this issue on a different thread. I know about it first hand, sadly.

It's no good for any young person to get soaked in an atmosphere of hate. We try to normalise it with all sorts of strategies but I think that the doors only open for us when we come to know, deep down, that it was all wrong and that it was NOT OUR FAULT. We are not responsible for the actions of our parents, we have to get through to this understanding, not just intellectually, but deep down inside.

Good thoughts to you,

Myzen,