Children, what is something you found out about your parents that you never told them about?

When I was around 10, my father came storming into my room and stiff-armed me into the wall.

He screamed in my face through tear-filled angry eyes.

What did you do to it?

I had no idea what he was talking about.

He dragged me into the bathroom and pointed at a box of arm and hammer used to deodorize the bathroom.

Still screaming,

his hand squeezing the back of my neck so hard, I thought he was going to snap my neck. I still pled ignorance. No clue what he was talking about. He threw me in my room and barricaded the

door with a large dresser so I couldn't get out, even though it was a pull. He left me in there

for three days. No food,

nothing. I was terrified. He never explained why he did what he did or what he was talking about.

Found out later when my much older cousin confessed at a family Christmas party that she had broken

into our home and stole my dad and stepmom's boogerersugar sugar stash that they hid in the arm and hammer.

She said this like it was a funny family story.

So my dad locked me up during a bender and almost killed me in the process.

I'm now a dad and don't speak to my parents at all.

Screw him.

Found out the reason we were so poor growing up was because both my parents had a

drinking and booger sugar issue. We always had a house, food, health insurance, and clothes,

but a few years without Christmas and birthdays happened. We almost lost the house once. My parents

were pretty high functioning for addicts to keep us. Oh well, I didn't know my dad had a wife

before my mother until I was 18. I know that my

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