Lewkat
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- New Jersey, USA
My dad was easygoing, but my mom, well that was another story altogether.
Yup. No matter how bad someone had it, there is always someone who had it worse.Wow. After reasing some of the responses here, it makes my childhood seem idyllic.
Nothing chaps my bottom-end worse that child/family favouritism!
You're a very special person, I wouldn't have been able to, ever, nor would I forget.I forgave my Mom many years ago. She had lost my twin in her 3rd month of pregnancy, and never thought I would survive. She even named me after the nurse that helped deliver me.
You're a very special person, I wouldn't have been able to, ever, nor would I forget.
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I think it was easy for me to forgive because of the support my Dad gave me. I would never have wanted to hurt him. Of course forgetting isn't easy.
@Pinky Sounds like my siblings and I. I also am the youngest of 3 sisters and my brother was 4 years younger than I. And boy, was my brother spoiled to the core!I felt like that when my baby brother came along. I was the youngest of 3 sisters. He was 7 yrs. younger than me. Up till then, I was "Daddy's Girl".
Typical baby of the family. The same held true for my baby brother (baby of the family).@Pinky Sounds like my siblings and I. I also am the youngest of 3 sisters and my brother was 4 years younger than I. And boy, was my brother spoiled to the core!
My brother, 7 yrs. younger than me, was a really good little kid. He got the toys, but wasn't a brat. He and I are very close, though he lives 3,000 miles away.@Pinky Sounds like my siblings and I. I also am the youngest of 3 sisters and my brother was 4 years younger than I. And boy, was my brother spoiled to the core!
My father was easy-going and valued peace to such an extent that he enabled my mother's emotional abuse of my sister and I. Controlling and domineering, my mother was quite narcissistic, and always had to be catered to and given exactly what she wanted. When displeased, she would withdraw all positive emotional contact, and refuse to interact with or even speak to us, often for days on end...
I hope you and your two older sisters spoiled him rotten!My brother, 7 yrs. younger than me, was a really good little kid. He got the toys, but wasn't a brat. He and I are very close, though he lives 3,000 miles away.
We treated him like the little angel he was. I remember one Halloween, we put rouge on him and tied a scarf around his head. Everyone thought he was a girl. From a very early age, he remembered words to songs, and sang them from beginning to end. "Catch A Falling Star" by Perry Como was one of those songs. He has been a singer in a local band in his city for years (not now, but he still jams with friends). He has a very good voice.I hope you and your two older sisters spoiled him rotten!
My middle name is Rose....After my Mom....♥My mom was like Momma Rose in "Gypsy", dad was like Ward Cleaver in "Leave it to Beaver".
"Peppermint Rose." Now that is really cool!My middle name is Rose....After my Mom....♥
The "Fear of God" is often an excuse for abuse.My mother and father had us going to Catholic School and wanted the fear of God put in all of us but mostly my father wanted that the most. My father had a really bad temper and you never knew what would Set It Off but he was scary.
Both of my parents would use the belt on us so l I really can't decide which one of them was more laid-back.
After we were grown up and then a few years after that they seemed to mellow somewhat.