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Welcome to R slash off my chest, where O.P discovers that his abusive father is actually a massive loser.

Our next Reddit post is from Responsible Courts. I'm a 29-year-old guy. I'm fit. I run ultramarathons. I'm sober, and I've spent most of my life walking on

eggshells around my father. He fights with everyone, his brother, his friends, his coworkers,

and he's physically abused me in the past. He punched me in the head

when I was a kid. It's not just the aggression, it's the neglect. In 29 years, we've never

had a single one-on-one father-son conversation. Not once. Whenever I try to speak to him,

even about normal everyday things, he shuts me down.

He refuses to make eye contact with me and is constantly avoidant. Because of this, I stopped

seeing him as a father a long time ago. To me, he's just a stranger I live with. Tonight,

the power went out because the cats tripped over a wire. It was an accident.

My father is currently very sick and physically weak, but he went into a rage. He started screaming

at my sister and me, demanding that we go out at midnight to buy an extension cord. I tried

to de-escalate. I told him to calm down. He got in my face. Then he tried to punch me.

In the past, I would have cowered. But tonight, something switched. I didn't punch him back,

but I pushed him away to protect myself. Because he's weak, he fell down. I expected to feel

horror or guilt. Instead, I felt nothing.

Actually, I felt good. I realized I wasn't scared of him anymore. I looked at him on the floor and

asked, it's been so long since you've been like this. What kind of father are you? He looked at me and said,

So what? He told me to get the F out of his

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