All Blog Posts Tagged 'teenagers' (1)

My father was a rage-aholic and I thanked him for not hitting me before he passed on.  He did smack me once when at age 8 I stole a 50 cent pea shooter and he slapped my for a 2^nd time at age 14 when I told him to go f*** himself.  But for the rest of the times, the abuse was verbal.

I began paying attention to my own anger for the first time when my 5 year old son did something that five year olds do, like spilled his milk or something, and I felt my father’s rage fill my…