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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]rurallib
(62,379 posts)My 2 older brothers were pretty much out of the house when it started. I was @10.
My father was working in another city and so was only home on the weekends. The fighting would start @ an hour after he returned home for the weekend and go until he left Monday morning.
All mixed in with alcohol. We were catholic, so they stayed together. I so wanted the fighting to stop or at least be able to go someplace else like my brothers did.
I vaguely remember one slapping incident where dad hit mom. I also had my mother try to kill us (she and I) 3 times with gas once, with a knife once and one time she just beat the crap out me.
peace finally came about 6 years later.
Funny thing is my brothers saw little of it. When I accidentally brought it up at a family party, they really got pissed at me for saying such stuff.
With two daughters I am a great believer and worker for women's rights.