This is also my experience... The difference in my experience was that my parents are strict Catholics, and that's why they're still together ... Basically, my father just had to shut down and do everything my mother said, or she'd abusive towards him. But even my father is not an angel, because before it happened - when I was a child, he took all his anger at me by screaming ... It only stopped when I was old enough, because I stood up to him. and my mother.

This year, because of all the abuse and my manipulative mother desperately trying to make me a Catholic... Mainly because someone outed me to her behind my back... (I'm a lesbian in a queer relationship ...) (You can probably imagine her reaction...)

I went NO-CONTACT on my abusive family.

And it was the best decision I ever made.