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maveric

(17,044 posts)
12. Watched my parents wretched marriage. Till death did they part.
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 04:14 PM
Jul 2024

Boston Catholics never split up.

Hekate

(100,133 posts)
3. You want to get a look into his sick twisted psyche, read "Hillbilly Elegy"
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 03:48 PM
Jul 2024

For every chapter where he waxes poetic about the endurance of a culture, there’s one where Momma tries to beat the life out of him.

Enjoy.

no_hypocrisy

(54,906 posts)
5. Screw you, JD!
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 03:51 PM
Jul 2024

I am a 67 year old survivor of a very dysfunctional family. My mother and father never should have married. They never should have had children. My mother kept having babies until she could "give" my father a son, whom he ignored along with the rest of us. Returning to the Fifties gives me douche chills.

Hope you're voted out of office after you lose the General Election.

debm55

(60,612 posts)
8. Agree with you. I have posted here about my parents and abuse I suffered --punched out teeth, broken bones, to me
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 04:01 PM
Jul 2024

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I am 69 and still fill the pain. If they couldn't stand each other. they should have left. But being Catholic they wouldn"t. So shove it up your ass Vance.

Freethinker65

(11,203 posts)
6. Actually, Vance doesn't really believe anything. He just says what he has been groomed by backers and think tanks to say
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 03:51 PM
Jul 2024

Ever watch him try to answer a simple question he hasn't been prepped for? A total non-critical thinking embarrassment. Honestly,Sarah Palin was a better choice for VP than Vance.

debm55

(60,612 posts)
7. Oh yes JD. have the kids listen to violence between parents and have the violence spill on to the kids. Looking back I
Mon Jul 15, 2024, 03:56 PM
Jul 2024

wished my parents would have divorced. Put there was a malignant need on both parts that made for both to abuse their children.

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