Thanks for saying that. Well, it’s a little different for my brother. My response to my father’s behaviour is fear and avoidance, I run to my room as soon as he comes back from work. I eat at a different time than him and I barely communicate with him. But my brother finds it restricting to be that scared, like he goes up to the kitchen to eat when he is hungry and per chance my father sees him and then my brother is the perfect victim for a beration. Once he came to my room crying and told me that he had flashbacks and he remembers once my father cornered him against a wall and held onto his collarbone so hard, my brother was afraid his collarbone would fracture. But even then, it’s harder from him to be constantly on alert like I am, so he is the more frequent target. But I keep telling him to protect himself and he’s starting to understand it slowly. I honestly think my father is a sociopath, I mean every article I read online, his behaviour checks all the boxes of a sociopath. Even the article on sociopath parents on psychcentral. He is witty, charismatic and charming to people on the outside, hurts us physically and emotionally without regret, says instead that we hurt him irreversibly with our behaviour, when his fit of rage passes, he flips back to calm and acts like nothing happened and it’s all roses and lilies and expects us to do the same. It’s like no one can have a mood but him; no one can have a preference or personality but him.