My father used belts, fists, open hand slaps to the face.
He WAS abusive.
Then I turned 14 and was getting bullied at school and he enrolled me into wrestling and boxing.
He came home drunk one night just before I turned 15 and was looking for trouble with my mom.
I still lost that fight but he never hit me again.
He never mentions it even today but once asked if Ive ever spanked my 22 year old or my now 7 year old??
I glared at him and said " I wont be remembered that way"!!
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