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When you recognize your abusive parent in your own behavior

I found myself yelling at my 7-year-old for spilling milk and I sounded exactly like my abusive father and I am terrified I am becoming him.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The parent confronts the horrifying possibility that trauma has programmed them to repeat the very patterns they fled.

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