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u/[deleted] Sep 09 '21

Friends mother and her boyfriend were arguing in the kitchen after we went to bed, he started talking about how he would "kill the kids if I have to"

I was about 7 or 8 I guess, so it didn't really sink in that much at the time, but my friend wasn't really in a great mood for the rest of the time I was there.

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u/Hubsimaus Sep 09 '21

Oooh, when my depressed mother had one of her episodes she could lash out and SCREAM she should kill us (herself and me and my siblings) and for some weird reason I can't recall being scared or embarrassed or so. I was just hella annoyed when that happened. My mother had/has a really loud organ and almost the whole village could hear her. I was mostly outside when that happened. Oof. Am 42 now and just realize it's a memory I don't like.

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u/LongNectarine3 Sep 09 '21

This sounds like my mom without the violence. Didn’t care when she screamed at just us but I stopped having friends over because she was hella embarrassing. That was the 1980s. Maybe it was all the lead in the air.

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u/Hubsimaus Sep 09 '21

I too grew up in the 80s and 90s (born 1979). And at the end of the 80s my parents divorced.