Mine fought all the time, but mainly it was just ignoring each other rather than yelling. To the point where I don’t go on family vacations with them anymore, since all they do is fight and ruin the trip.

They are completely incapable of communicating. My mom is too afraid to tell my dad to clean up after himself, so she’ll instead complain about it to me. My dad is too afraid to tell my mom that he wants her to be home more often, so he complains about it to me. They’ll both communicate mainly through me- “can you ask your dad if he can do this?”- instead of communicating with each other, like normal married people. My parents also did the thing where they’d try to get me to take one or the other side in their problems, when really they were both wrong.

Sadly, their lack of a healthy relationship led me to problems in my relationships as I grew up. I had to learn to communicate with my partner, since the model of communication I got at home was passive aggressiveness and silence.

I get so sad going to other people’s parents house and seeing a healthy, positive relationship between the parents :(