I am trying to live a life after having a bad stepfather and a bad family situation in general, when i read that many children die of physical harm made by their parents.
I think that many people have problems with their families.
Its so unfair because so many grow up with good parents, it seems like a lack of good faith, or a poor(er)destiny.
Looking at history to try to piece the puzzle together is a waste of ones time.
For those who have strength to get away from bad family situations i strongly advice them to do so.
I had a stepfather who "chased" me both mentally and physically around in the house.
He was the most critical person i grew up with next to my mother.
I wish he hadn`t come into our lives because i saw the decline in others and myself so strongly coming up that i am in shock of my mothers weaknesses, for not stopping his daily bullying of me, my father and my siblings.
Its like he strives on having a conflict with her last family so he can feel important to her life!?
I hate family arguments or anything reminding me of them because i know that someone always claim to have more importance, and he or she will step over dead people to prove it.
I saw a documentary about the builders of the new buildings where the twin towers stood, one of the builders had come from Ireland because of a broken family.
He said something that has been following me for years: "when you fail its all on you".
I knew exactly what he meant as it is what i have felt like too for many years.
A broken family doesn`t always consist of illness and/or death it can be "dead" relationships where you can`t talk to each other anymore, resentment, poverty, bitterness. In fact it is all the problems that could occur in a broken relationship with a man and woman, except it contains a whole family with many children.
It is so important that parents learn their children about prevention in a early age, because many of the marriages that fail and are ugly, are the ones made in vanity of young age.
The ones who pick up their tab are their children, and i don`t think that is a good enough foundation for a long life where you have to encounter so many people.
My stepfather "follows" me inside my head to this day with all his negative and criticising remarks.
That parents hate their own children is not a lie.
Sometimes that happens to be the truth.
My mother couldn`t or wouldn`t control his anger and we were always put between them whenever they had a stand still in their relationship.
My stepfather has given me a low self esteem and many other negative feelings in my life.
My whole family has given many negative feelings.
This is not how i want to live my life.
Even if you do move away from them you don`t always get the peace you were seeking for. They follow you and accuse you for leaving them too!?
Its not as easy as having problems with an ex, its much harder.
I have read that mothers who have abusive husbands have to leave and change adresse, name and phone number.
This is to protect themselves.
How do you protect yourself from a bad stepfather if you are a child and your mother don`t bother doing anything, even if she knows it was bad of him?
The police can protect so many people but not children in poor or bad family situations.
In countries where food is lush and money gives, it is strange that we should have any problems.
Like as if money, clothes and food can solve everything.
Maybe it should be more focus on divorced children?
Perhaps the psychiatry should have more insight into children?
Even when its not so easy to spot, as it was in my situation because my stepfather would always act nice as soon as people were around him, then he would go back into being a careless $#%^, when they had left.
I think the damage he has left inside of me is worse then anything!
He used to say to my older sister when they were arguing that he would make sure no doctor would treat...
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