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Bettie

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5. His voice does it to me

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Original post)

Thu Nov 27, 2025, 08:03 AM

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and brings actual flashbacks to my own father who was a sexual abuser and a narcissist.

The wheedling tone of his voice, the sing-song threats, the anger over anything that doesn't fit his world view, the belief that the entire world exists only for him....it's all so horribly familiar.

It does tell me that it was a good thing that my own father had no power or money, because he would have been a worse monster than he was.

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