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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.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

My father died when I was young, and after he did, my mother had it tough. Very tough.

There was mental and physical abuse in my family.

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

I lost my mother when I was very young, and my father when I was in college.

My mother left my father in their late 60s.

My mother and father didn't love each other, so they were always fighting.

I got a mother who's very strong after taking the whippings that she took from my father.