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Dad continues his controlling ways and now has no contact with both of his sons. First of all, some background.

My dad has always had control and anger issues. He worked hard to give my mum, brother and I what we needed,

but he wasn't really emotionally there. Growing up with him was tough. If I vacuumed and didn't do it

exactly how he would do it, he'd make comments. If he did something wrong once, he would

immediately say, you'd never do anything right. Could not fathom that people make mistakes and that

mistakes happen, especially since he made plenty of them, just never admitted to it. He had friends

and relatives live with us without ever asking my mum, brother or I, if we'd be okay with it.

Not asking my mum, who is the person that ends up

taking on the additional work, was the most annoying thing for me. We lived in a two-bedroom apartment.

I was okay showing a room with my brother, but not quite okay showing it with an uncle for years,

another relative, and once even some random guy who was a friend of a friend. He sacrificed the

comfort of me, my mum and my brother to make himself look good by offering space to these people

for long periods of time. Think years, by the way, not days. There are plenty more examples of

his selfish and controlling behaviour, not to mention him having a short views. Despite all of this,

he did work hard and had his moments, and I'll always appreciate the things he did do. We did have

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