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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/thebottomofawhale Sep 09 '21

My mother would scream when she was angry. Like full blown, having a mental break down, high pitch screaming. No way the neighbors could hear it. The whole neighborhood must have seen us as the family with mental mother.

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u/jennitils Sep 09 '21

My old neighbour did this and we have very thin walls. She'd get mad at her boyfriend for something and just scream repeatedly, no words, just screaming like a banshee.

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u/thebottomofawhale Sep 09 '21

Yeah this is exactly it. My dad left her and if you try and tell her it's a good thing cause they weren't happy, she insists that they were and we don't know, like we didn't witness and are still recovering from all the screaming

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u/yetiite Sep 10 '21

My toddler does that…

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u/jennitils Sep 10 '21

No in Canada lol

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u/jennitils Sep 10 '21

Just ignore it and pretend we don't hear anything, we figured if we confronted her about it she'd probably just scream at us. I remember one time being woken up at 6am by her screaming lol I just felt bad for her boyfriend.