What is the most messed up thing your parents have done to you?

While growing up, my parents would argue every so often, and it would escalate to screaming matches, and it pretty much sucked.

This went on until I was four or so.

The last time it happened, my father struck my mother, and she decided it was time for us to leave.

We lived out in the country where neighbors weren't around for miles.

The closest neighbor we had was about seven miles away.

My mother grabbed my baby brother and headed out the door. I was already outside, avoiding them

and they're screaming. She told me to follow her, so I did. As we were leaving the property,

my father yells out for my mother to come back, which she refuses to do so. Come back, or I'll

dispense a bullet in Alt-account

9229. She turned and refused again, and I turned around in disbelief. My father threatened to

shoot me if she didn't come back. I just stood there not knowing what to do. He called out to

her name, Come back now. I stood there as my mother walked back to grab my hand. As she reached for it,

my father pulled the trigger. The next thing I remember was waking up in the hospital two and a half

weeks later. My father actually did it. And that is the worst thing either of my parents have done to me.

My dad came out when I was 15. My mother, a religious zealot, pretty much manipulated my view of him,

declaring that he was destroying not only their marriage, but also our family, and dragged me to

love-one-out conferences, which were, for all intents and purposes, brainwashing, bigoted,

gay-bashing parties. She forced me into Christian counseling and cried to me daily about how

horrible he was.

I found myself distancing myself from my father, whom I had considered my best friend for most

of my life.

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