My father was very physically & emotionally abusive. He was the kind of man they made movies about, he beat my mother and my sisters & myself. More me than my two sisters, maybe because I was a male...as I grew up he became more threatened by my size. At 16 he threw me out of the house, I lived in the back seat of a '68 Nova for 2 years. I did get an apartment and put myself through school. I am married with 3 children of my own, a wonderful wife a 2 grown children, a wonderful life. My mother did divorce my father (finally) 15 years ago. I have a excellent relationship of course with my mother and sisters...we are still healing. My father is now 70 and he never mentions the things of the past. It's almost as if he doesn't want to remember the truth of what happened. For some reason I feel a need to confront him...I wonder about my own motives, I don't think I want to hurt him...but I "NEED" him to acknowledge what happened..I don't know why.
Does he remember?
2007-11-26
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