Reply #190: LQ, we all have to stand up together, don't we?

[mentalsolstice]

For those who weren't there, and didn't experience anything similar, it's hard for them to understand...why we love the non-abusive parent...and why we care for the abusive parent in their old age. My husband experienced corporal punishment as a child, but nothing like I did...he has tried to understand. This video was so hard for me to watch, yet it is the closest thing I can show him about the uncontrolled anger that a parent can show to a child, and the hours-long verbal and physical fights my parent would go off on with me because I didn't conform to their ideal of a normal child or teenager.