What was your dad doing when he was your age now? How different was his life from yours?

He was a horrible person at my age! I’m 39 now so at my age … well, I was 4 so he was fighting my mom for full custody, which he’d get by use of deceit and manipulation. He terrified me over years into lying for him to win. He went on to do terrible things to me and my siblings. My aunts and uncles were victims of his too and to this day speak of him with anger and emotion with only knowing what he’s done to themselves, as they weren’t present when me or my siblings were his focus. I imagine his soul was very dark.

In contrast I’m a really good mom, I love my children and my pets and Im married to someone who adores me and Im not dark inside, I only suffer with my own anxiety.

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