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My Parents Taught Me This…
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https://onehelluvahippie.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/my-parents-taught-me-this/
A thread
https://onehelluvahippie.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/my-parents-taught-me-this/
This started off as a Quora question, and I thought it was interesting to share here as well.
My father wasn’t very smart, high school dropout. My mother had book smarts, but not enough street smarts. She was sweet upon meeting, but naïve as far as religion and very prideful.
He could barely keep a job his whole life, and because of those frustrations, he became morbidly obese and sexually molested me from age 12–17.
My mother pretended to not know about this, hence why it went on for 5 years and I never rose awareness, and when I did get to tell her, she told me to lie to the cops, so he wouldn’t be sent to jail.
If there is anything my parents as a whole taught me, it’s how not to raise children. Our home was filthy, disorganized, and abusive most of the time. My mother focused too much on church life and work life to pay attention to my sister and I.
My father was a bipolar, domineering narcissist who tried to control my life even after I married until I cut him off. They taught me how not to be that way, not to abuse my kids, and to always be real and truthful in everything you do.
They are the reason I started my YouTube channel to help others, so I suppose that some good came out of being raised in that household.
This thread can be read here: https://onehelluvahippie.wordpress.com/2020/10/11/my-parents-taught-me-this/
