Generally, calm people of Reddit.

What made you lose your absolute mind that time?

It always felt like my parents never wanted me.

I was a surprise honeymoon baby born nine months in a day after their wedding.

I was regularly screamed at for anything I did until I just started hiding.

I was called, quote, the practice child my whole life, my younger siblings

got way more love and attention, etc. In my teens, they started taking in, quote,

strays. If any neighborhood kids didn't want to go home, they could just be at our house

all the time. Effectively, my mother would take my friends away from me to be her friends

instead, one of which

was a kid who picked on me constantly from the time I was 11. I guess they had that in common.

That guy was kicked out of his dad's house and his mom's house when he was 20, so my parents

took him in permanently. That killed me. But I always wanted their approval, so I was always

calm and agreeable, always desperately trying to figure out how to get them wanted their approval, so I was always calm and agreeable,

always desperately trying to figure out how to get them to love me, so I went along with it.

Years later, I married and have a son. This guy still lives with my parents. They continue to

coddle and make excuses for him while criticizing me for whatever they feel like. One day,

we're all at my parents' house,

and my son is being a goofy two-year-old, which annoys the man-child living there. So he gets furious,

picks my son up by his ankle, and spanks him. My parents claim not to have seen it. We went home.

I couldn't sleep that night because I was so upset. The next morning, I made sure the guy

and my mom would be at home, and why wouldn't he be there, and I went to confront them with my wife.

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