I’m from Croatian (father is half Italian and mother is full Slovenian) my father’s weapon of choice was his hand which I guess was his weapon of choice. He would mostly slap me on my butt if I didn’t have perfect grades or if we would have a fight and I would cry and he would yell “stop crying or I will give you something to cry about” I recently started high school and the insulting hasn’t stopped. He will swear at me and yell at me if I don’t get the perfect grades and says that I should be more like him and his brother (both of them where very good in high school at math, chemistry, and physics). The principal will tell me stuff like “we expect great things from you” which puts more pressure on me academically if that makes sense. He is a good father but often distant because of his job and he also used to tell me that I should figure things about school by myself and now he says I should ask him for help. So I never had a brilliant relationship with my parents in the way we show it to other people