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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 158417" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Isn't family history amazing sometimes. Not necessarily that it is a secret or anything, just how some really big stuff doesn't seem to get passed down to the next generation.</p><p> </p><p>I fortunately didn't know my maternal grandfather. What little info I got from my grandmother the single time I asked about him was enough for me. He was sadistically abusive, an alcoholic, and schizphrenic to boot (maybe some other stuff mixed in). She left him when the youngest of their 7 kids was about 2 yrs old. Maybe before that even. I know it was bad enough that to this day my mother won't talk about him, except to say she was thrilled the day he died and was gone from this earth.</p><p> </p><p>And from what my grandmother relived in her mind while dying of cancer could give me nitemares if I let it.</p><p> </p><p>Yet I'm the only grandchild who knows. No one else bothered to ask my grandmother about their grandfather, and parents refused to talk.</p><p> </p><p>One aunt's first husband was a carbon copy of my grandfather. Another aunt was dumb enough to marry the brother.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/faint.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":faint:" title="faint :faint:" data-shortname=":faint:" /></p><p> </p><p>Cousins from those two families are so messed up it's not at all funny.<img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/dissapointed.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":dissapointed:" title="dissapointed :dissapointed:" data-shortname=":dissapointed:" /></p><p> </p><p>I have no wish to know anything else about my grandfather. May he rot in hades.</p><p> </p><p>Good luck with your search. </p><p> </p><p>Hugs</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 158417, member: 84"] Isn't family history amazing sometimes. Not necessarily that it is a secret or anything, just how some really big stuff doesn't seem to get passed down to the next generation. I fortunately didn't know my maternal grandfather. What little info I got from my grandmother the single time I asked about him was enough for me. He was sadistically abusive, an alcoholic, and schizphrenic to boot (maybe some other stuff mixed in). She left him when the youngest of their 7 kids was about 2 yrs old. Maybe before that even. I know it was bad enough that to this day my mother won't talk about him, except to say she was thrilled the day he died and was gone from this earth. And from what my grandmother relived in her mind while dying of cancer could give me nitemares if I let it. Yet I'm the only grandchild who knows. No one else bothered to ask my grandmother about their grandfather, and parents refused to talk. One aunt's first husband was a carbon copy of my grandfather. Another aunt was dumb enough to marry the brother.:knockedout: Cousins from those two families are so messed up it's not at all funny.:dissapointed: I have no wish to know anything else about my grandfather. May he rot in hades. Good luck with your search. Hugs [/QUOTE]
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