I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother would take it in turn and beat on me. I was an abused child. I was mad about all those things, very bitter and very angry.
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter.
A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
I was one of those daughters who saw my mother as my enemy when I was a teen.
My mom took all of my behavior personally. Everything I did, she thought it was an act of rebellion against her. But it was just me being me.
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Now when I was a teenager, I was angsty as any teenager was, but after 17 years of having a mother who was in and out of my life like a yo-yo and a father who was faceless, I was angry.
I've seen my mother struggling, everything that she did to raise me and my brothers and my sisters, and I know the anger that she went through.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.