This is what can happen when you accede/capitulate to someone

[LiberalLoner]

4. I'm glad you survived that childhood. I'm sorry you had to endure it. And I'm sorry for how awful it must feel to be

Back under authoritarian insanity.

I understand because I grew up the same way.

I’d say the closest I got to life threatening though was when he would drive drunk. Once he passed out at the wheel and we were heading at a concrete wall at 80 MPH. My stepmother jerked the wheel and saved us.

I let out an audible gasp during the whole thing because I thought I was going to die. My father woke up and yelled at me to shut up.

He would tell the story later to others as a funny story. Just like he would tell the funny story of his wife he gave two black eyes to.

He didn’t tell the story of how he superglued a Yorkshire terrier’s lips together as “punishment” because I guess even he realized most people would not approve of that.