My parents fought over the most trivial things every day and would do it front of my sisters and I all the time. Usually it was yelling for a couple of minutes and then it died down but there got heated to the point where we were terrified. I remember one particular got to the point where my mom started clearing the table of all the stuff that was on there and started throwing shit everywhere and another one where my dad started banging his head on the wall repeatedly. My twin sister ended up being my mom's punching bag (sometimes literally) and my dad's pseudo-therapist. She suffered from severe depression as a teenager and my parents punished her for being depressed but she's much better now. I had my own issues but I eventually got over them too. My older sister learned their toxic behaviors and lack of anger management. Sne's straight up batshit now. When I see her, she's always angry and she's always on the verge of an outburst.

My twin sister and I went into nursing and my mother was embarrassed that her son went into that field so she was telling people that I was doing physical therapy. It wasn't until it became clear that I intended to go to grad school to become an NP that she stopped. My twin sister is heading into nursing administration and my older sister is a Pharmacist. Today, my dad tells me to my face that we could have turned out better and that had it not been for our mom, we would have been his ideal children.