Polls: Family & Friends

I've never felt better. I blocked all family on the phone. I’m sure most of them don’t care, except my parents. But they’re toxic as fck.

I’m a bit worried how easy it was emotionally. But ahh well. Was tired of being used for their happiness and not mine. Snip!

And if you have kids already how important was it for you to have them?

It never been a problem. But since my daughter invited friends none nudist home. Indeed I asked them about it. But I'm still not sure.

I need answer!

I can imagine how it would be difficult to stay at home with your children and forego a career, and I can also imagine how it would be difficult to continue in your career and not be there 24/7 for your children. But I'm a guy just conjecturing, while you are living the experience, so tell me: are you pursuing a career or staying at home with your kids, and are you happy with whatever decision you made on that subject?

I do imagine that in court, if the judge hears about one parent having slapped their child in the face, that will for sure hurt their case.

Sometimes I see the line of what is abuse vs punishment being blurred. As a child and throughout my teen years, I was slapped in the face thousands of times by my mother and my throat was grabbed once by my dad and brother. Although abuse from my dad came in the form of threatening and emotional abuse while with my mom, it was both. I remember when I was 12 years old, I heard my mom on the phone with my grandma bragging about how she'd slap both me and my older brother in the face.

I absolutely consider what she did to me abuse of a child, she no longer does it because I'm now significantly bigger than her and exponentially stronger, and I've also stood up to her on many occasions, not afraid to get in her face and yell far louder than she can, to her astonishment.

She still tries to emotionally control me, and screams at me when I confront her on the constant abuse she put me through, she just fake cries and when i tell someone else, she demands that I tell them it isn't true. Same as she did when a doctor asked me when I was in the hospital for lung infections, if my parents ever hit me and I told him that my mom regularly hits me and she demanded that I tell him it isn't true, but I refused.

My dad then told me I disgraced the family and myself. If a parent slaps her child in the face with more than enough force to cause bruising, do you consider that abuse of a child? Should that parent be arrested and charged for it?

I. e., can it be taken as Narcissism? Any alternative?

What would be better for a kid? As a person who was always beaten and mocked and feared by his dad, I am curious about this. Maybe if I had no father, I would be much more healthier and stronger?

I found out I got blocked by people with whom I had never spoken. lolol Real life is a whole different story.🙃