Listening to you parents have a drag-down fight from a floor down is oddly fascinating.

The whole ceiling was shaking earlier. They have odd dynamics--my mom nags until my dad explodes, she explodes bck, my mom starts to cry, they yell some more, then degrade into tense "debating" at medium-loud volume for ten or so minutes until one of them marches off or totally breaks down or something.

:crazy:

I remember those days. Take care of your mental - I meant that :hug:

My parents are a lot like brother-sister rather than husband-wife when it comes to some things, and fighting is one of them. They don't have drag-downs very often, so when they do, they're like ultra vicious ones. The main problem comes from having two strong-willed people married to each other--a hotly strong willed one (mom) and a passively, rock-like strong willed one (dad). Mom doesn't appreciate my father's impassivity in certain matters, while my dad doesn't appreciate my mom going off like a bottle-rocket.

:crazy:

Let this be a primer on how NOT to behave in relationships.

We're separated for everyone's peace of mind.

I grew up in a household with verbal shout matches between my parents for as long as I can remember. Sometimes they happened every single day, sometimes once a week, sometimes when my dad had too much to drink, and sometimes when my mom was bored. I remember the police being called a couple times. I remember having to sneak out the house with my siblings fearing my dad was going to be violent to my mom (he was never violent to my brother or I, but he didn't mind throwing things at my sister on a couple of occasions).

The pit feeling in your stomach you probably get when you hear them is not normal and it's not okay. Tell to shut the fuck up :P. Parents should never fight knowingly in front of a kid like that.

My mom was quite the yeller, and she would yell maniacally at me and my brother as well. For a few months after I first moved out from college I swear sometimes I would hear her in the back of my head although she was 150 miles away. I had grown so accustomed to having to be able to hear her voice and answer her demands asap that I became paranoid.

Parents need to be in tune to the emotional needs of a kid or they'll be affected for life. I know I have been as well as my siblings.

If the fighting in anyway becomes violent or on the verge of violence (even a simple push, throwing a projectile, etc), then call the police. Whatever your disturbing the police laws are, call the police if the parents are arguing after a certain period of night (like 10 PM).

Only my dad and both stepmothers added lots of booze to the mix. It was awful!


I'm so sorry that you are listening to their problems. :loveya:

Arguments... well not in years at least. There first few years of marriage they had quite a few.


My Bio Dad and his wife... oh god they had some nasty arguments, but luckily over the past few years things have been great between them two.

Of course my favorite ending to any argument in my family history is this . . .

Grandma: Either go find a job or I'm going to divorce you . .

a few days later

Grandpa: I got a job, They are going to train me and send me to Vietnam.

:hug:

same secnario, different place and time.