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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 690493" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p>That sounds like me. At least how I started out as a young woman. But I was like you, IB, I fought for myself. I became the best me I could be.</p><p>This is tragic.</p><p>We share something in common. I wish we did not.</p><p></p><p>When I was 18 or so, I found my Dad. He was an alcoholic, living a sordid life with my then 7 year old half brother. I lived with them for a short time, and for the next 10 years saw my Dad, off and on.</p><p></p><p>At the time I began the therapy to which I referred in the earlier post, I got the courage to stop seeing my father. I could not stand to be with him drunk. I could not stand being subjected to the degradation of his life. He was mean. So many reasons. I get at heart it was--being around him made me less, not more.</p><p></p><p>I never had contact with him again after this. When I was 40 I found out that he had died 6 years earlier.. Shortly afterward, I reached out to my brother, who was then about 30.</p><p></p><p>He told me that my father had hated me at the end of his life. Just despised me. Calling me all kinds of degrading names, sexually and racially degrading.</p><p></p><p>It hurt some. By that time all of the love had turned into something different--what I do not know.</p><p></p><p>My brother died at 32. He drowned while fishing. Drunk.</p><p></p><p>I sometimes wonder how in the world my life turned out as well as it did. It is not that my life was so great, it is more that I believe I have learned as much as I could as I lived. That is one reason CD is so important to me. I have learned so much by sharing.</p><p></p><p>IB. I am very sorry about your baby brother. I feel sad for everybody. All of us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 690493, member: 18958"] That sounds like me. At least how I started out as a young woman. But I was like you, IB, I fought for myself. I became the best me I could be. This is tragic. We share something in common. I wish we did not. When I was 18 or so, I found my Dad. He was an alcoholic, living a sordid life with my then 7 year old half brother. I lived with them for a short time, and for the next 10 years saw my Dad, off and on. At the time I began the therapy to which I referred in the earlier post, I got the courage to stop seeing my father. I could not stand to be with him drunk. I could not stand being subjected to the degradation of his life. He was mean. So many reasons. I get at heart it was--being around him made me less, not more. I never had contact with him again after this. When I was 40 I found out that he had died 6 years earlier.. Shortly afterward, I reached out to my brother, who was then about 30. He told me that my father had hated me at the end of his life. Just despised me. Calling me all kinds of degrading names, sexually and racially degrading. It hurt some. By that time all of the love had turned into something different--what I do not know. My brother died at 32. He drowned while fishing. Drunk. I sometimes wonder how in the world my life turned out as well as it did. It is not that my life was so great, it is more that I believe I have learned as much as I could as I lived. That is one reason CD is so important to me. I have learned so much by sharing. IB. I am very sorry about your baby brother. I feel sad for everybody. All of us. [/QUOTE]
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