hyperion wrote:
He claims thats what my grandfather taught him, bullocks. I knew my grandfather way to well to believe that. My Granfather was kind charming witty, extremly intelligent, well informed(he was a engineer) all things my father is not.
To me, that is a classic sign of abusive parents. A classic get-out clause, a classic copout.
Both of my parents claimed they'd got MUCH worse off my grandparents, than they'd ever given to me. My father was an unquestionable emotional abuser towards me. I'm still suffering somewhat from it now.
Thinking about it, if he'd been treated even worse by his parents - and they were definitely nice enough not to - he's be quite a traumatised individual which he didn't seem to be.