My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.
I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.
My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.
My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy.
When I was a kid, my mother's parenting style teetered between benign neglect and intense bouts of violence.
My dad was a violent alcoholic. Really aggressive.
I got married at 22 and remained in an abusive marriage for 10 years. I made up my mind that that was never going to happen to me again. I made a brave step to walk out in a society when you didn't walk out of an abusive marriage. It was mental and physical abuse.
When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort.
There was mental and physical abuse in my family.
There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.
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