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In reply to the discussion: Has this ever happened to you? No? Then I am glad. [View all]Flatulo
(5,005 posts)'Straighten her out' a few times.
Dad was a raging alcoholic and WWII vet, who came back damaged but never sought help (did anyone in those days?)
Mom stayed with him for 37 years until he drank himself to death in 1979. She lived another 33 years after his death, but never spoke an ill word about him. It troubled her greatly that my brother and sister and I had such horrible memories of him.
He damaged my mom in every conceivable way, but he also damaged all his children. He tried to murder us all by setting the house in fire with us all inside. Everywhere he went he sowed pain and chaos in the world. If you even looked at him he'd beat you half to death. I saw him bite a man's ear off in a barroom fight. I saw him open an man's skull with a tire iron. He was simply a monster.
It pains me to say it, but the happiest day of my life was when he died.