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some of my earliest memories are lying in bed in terror waiting for the sound of my abusive fathers work truck to pull into the driveway. I got to where like a dog i could identify his specific truck as soon as it was in audible range. Sometimes I could pretend to be asleep and I might get left alone a while.
It's many decades later, I live in a very safe place and the patriarch who rules the roost here doesn't even raise his voice much less hit me. All the same i get a sharp spike of fear every time he pulls up in the driveway. It took me a few years of work and therapy to be able to stay downstairs and not have to flee upstairs when he got home.
It's shameful how many people's first bullies are the people they need to look to for safety. It really breaks you.
"save the traditional nuclear family" my ass
if i had the chance to flee home as a teenager and live somewhere else, i absolutely would have done. even if it meant living among strangers.
I had a similar reaction when I heard our garage door open when my father got home.