Parental Rage

[MegaManOfNumbers]

My parents are currently going through their eight-bazillionth argument.

I'm at a loss of words, my dad started a fight over her tone of voice, and he is CONVINCED that he is right.

I have no intention of whining over my terrible and foolish father; tell me, do you guys know anyone from your personal lives that are truly foolish? parents, friends, exes, teachers, anyone.

Maybe hearing your stories might help me feel better.

 

[Erana]

Maybe hearing your stories might help me feel better.

No they won't. :/
But you're not alone here.

That being said, the worst of it was when I was pretty young and he was still living in the house. Hearing people fight like that still puts a knot in my stomach...

And guess what kind of people live upstairs!!!

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Eh, I have a teacher that refuses to let people listen to music while working because "there haven't been any reports that people work better while listening to music". And that's not even a paraphrasal, she really said that.
I dunno about you, but that sounds incredibly foolish to me.
[sub]Didn't really come as a surprise, though. She thinks computers are the work of the devil as well.[/sub]

 

[Tselis]

Most awkward moment ever, trying to explain to my mother that no, my husband really was not abusing me. That, infact, as a person who had only started treatment for Bipolar I was the one mostly being mean. This was only after she tried (and almost succeeded) to get my husband to divorce me.

 

[MegaManOfNumbers]

Maybe hearing your stories might help me feel better.

No they won't. :/
But you're not alone here.

That being said, the worst of it was when I was pretty young and he was still living in the house. Hearing people fight like that still puts a knot in my stomach...

And guess what kind of people live upstairs!!!

What I was trying to say was that you guys must have worse stories, which in comparison would makes my own issues minuscule.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

My Dad is a manipulator and my step-Dad is a loud, aggressive, ass. I hated my step-Dad when I was younger but didn't realize that Dad was manipulating me at the time. At this point I respect my Step-Dad (even if he is loud and, easy to anger) and strongly dislike my Dad (although he said he could get me a Nintendo...but then video games are how he manipulated me before so I'll believe it when I see it)

 

[emeraldrafael]

My step dad once got so angry he broke a table (its one f those ones that pulled apart, and you could put a piece downt he middle to make it larger. he broke the middle braces), and attempted to break a chair over my mother. thats probably the closest I ever came to a murder charge.

EDIT: yeah, my mom and dad never married and he jsut accepts me as his child, so they never lived togehter. so id ont have stories of them really fighting that extends beyond a few rough words and one of them storming off. and those are just boring.

 

[Blueruler182]

My mom used to date this guy with a drinking problem. He wouldn't get drunk all the time, but when he did, he was violent. Now, I'm a big guy, have been for a long time, I've done a lot of moving over the years and have always been strong. This guy dwarfed me. One of those UFV nuts. I would wake up every two months (after he'd sworn he quit), being told to pack up and we're leaving. It's been over a few years now and I still don't sleep well.

 

[Mr Thin]

Me and my younger brother will argue over the pettiest bullshit. I sometimes stop myself mid argument because I'm taken aback by how pathetic I'm behaving. So I guess I'm the foolish one, because I keep doing it.

I vaguely remember my parents arguing a lot when I was a youngster, though it never seemed to be a big deal. Wasn't until I got older that I realised the marriage wasn't going so well.

 

[chaosyoshimage]

My parents used to yell at each other all the time. They haven't been together for over 10 years...

I'm not helping, sorry...

 

[shadyh8er]

My so-called best friend. I used to be under the impression that his girlfriend was a fool for leaving him, but after seeing how he took the breakup (by dying his hair red and proclaiming his freedom), my views quickly changed.

I'm actually ashamed that I would think that, because his ex is a saint.

 

[TehCookie]

Me and my brother debate all the time. Though sometimes he get's angry and it does turn into a argument. Though I found it quite ironic when I herd him and my mom fighting. Since she said he needed to learn to control his anger and his response was "I DON'T HAVE ANGER ISSUES!" Real convincing there.

 

[Erana]

Maybe hearing your stories might help me feel better.

No they won't. :/
But you're not alone here.

That being said, the worst of it was when I was pretty young and he was still living in the house. Hearing people fight like that still puts a knot in my stomach...

And guess what kind of people live upstairs!!!

What I was trying to say was that you guys must have worse stories, which in comparison would makes my own issues minuscule.

Conflict in the home is a real life issue. Going, "Hey, at least its not cancer" or something can help one cope on the short-term, but you're not being self-centric and naiive for being affected by it.
Are you sure hearing that hearing about other peoples' problems would make you feel better? I mean, as geeks we have plenty of links and goodies to distract you, and we can lend an ear if you want to talk about it. (though I'd suggest that you take that to the advice forum for the environment there that caters to more sensitive issues)

Whatever you think would help, I hope we can fulfill it.

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

snip

I have something much, much better than stories to help you feel better.

Spoiler: Caution, Possible Cute Overload

I hope you feel better.

 

[Shockolate]

I dunno.

My mother still gets pissed whenever I use the word ******.

Does that count?

 

[Low Key]

This thread is more about arguments in a relationship than anything else. Isn't love grand?

 

[twistedmic]

Once my mom got pissed off because she though that I ate more than half of a box of sugar cookies that she bought, so she took/hid all of the easy to cook food (bread, hot dogs, peanut butter and Jelly, hot dog buns, tortilla chips, pre-made nacho cheese) and dumped out the bottle of Diet Coke I had bought earlier the day before. It wasn't until later, when I called her for something else, that she realized that she was wrong about the cookies. She had it in her head that she bought a fifteen count package whe she had bought a ten count package.

Also, she will blame me for anything that goes wrong in the house/apartment. Once she saw a couple of dishes in the sinks dishpan (a plastic burger flipper under a plate) and thought that it was a saucepan that I hadn't washed out. She ran some 'hot, soapy water' to let them soak and didn't turn the water all the way off. The dishpan ended up blocking the drain, so the whole thing (pan and sink) eventually over flowed and water seeped down into the downstairs apartment (maintenance woke us up at around seven-thirty that morning) and I got blamed because I didn't put those few dishes into the dishwasher or I didn't fill the dishpan with 'hot soapy water'.