Need to Vent - Thanks Religious Assholes

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Thank you. I don't know either how anyone can treat their children this way. It's a horrible way to carry on.

The more they abuse their power and treat their kids like shit when they have them "at their mercy", the more likely those kids are to have as little to do with them as possible when they get the chance. My parents have made their bed, now they lie in it. They're never going to change, they are still trying their best to abuse and manipulate me and I'm 38. The difference now is that I have completely emotionally detached myself from them. I've also moved far away from them so they can't keep "just popping round". For my own sanity, this is the way it had to be. It sounds like your father is pushing very hard for that to be your only option too.

One extremely radical idea of my own, possibly terrible but here goes: you could get him to read my posts here so he can see the results of his "style" of parenting. That would give him one last chance to back the fuck up. If he still doesn't after that, there is no hope for him. You could say you've been discussing your problems, and copy/paste my posts without having to show him what you wrote.