Whoa. Imagine if only 🤤

My father beat me as a lifestyle. Just as often, he terrorized me psychologically. I had to become a fellow grown man before I could confront him about it without retaliation of another beating. For decades, I gave my mother a pass. But as she edges closer towards losing her memory, as the elderly do, I finally asked her why she always cowered while I was beaten. Why was she never the mama bear that takes a stand between her little cub and the mean Grizzly? I'm heartbroken to admit she cannot cope with reconciling her cowardice. Even though she herself was never beaten, her fear for her own well being was stronger than her love for her child. She now has the audacity to insist she was never in the room all the times when it happened, and washes her hands of any culpability. I can't believe the enormity of her denial. I don't know the clinical name of the mental condition to accurately describe them, but I know if they were reacting to this post about Family Is Everything, they'd give it a big thumbs up and infer onto everyone that they are very different than what I know them to be. And so I wonder, is this OP virtue-signaling his values as an internal war with the other half of some Split Personality disorder? Is this public message really just a private matter between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?

Yes it is.

I think it’s more that he had a really hard childhood and experienced a lot of neglect, and we basically created the family we always wished we had and are very proud of it. It’s all that matters

I’m sorry to hear that brother. That must have been difficult growing up. Genuinely mean that. Closure is hard to get unfortunately especially from boomers. I never had any with my parents either. So you’re not alone in that.

Picturing my mother as a child is a strategy I use to get in the right frame of mind to forgive and tolerate her. …this one trick…

Wait a minute. Natalie Portman is 44 and Mark Hamill is 74. What am I missing. She can’t possibly be his mother - unless…

I AM YOUR FATHER

🫡