lol, sorry for the long question, just any opinions please
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as far as forgiving my dad, i suppose you could say that i have. mostly because i know that he cannot touch me and i haven’t seen him since before my son was born. i don’t wish harm on him, mostly i guess i just don’t care about him anymore. i don’t want an apology from him, and i realize no one can ever make sense of what he did, but i need to deal w/ my anger towards the abuse. also, i have trouble w/ intimate situations, and it would be great it that could be resolved.
Danna
Two nights ago he was being extremely mouthy with me and would not listen to anything I said. I told him he had to go to bed early after he started cussing me – saying “F%#$ You” and calling me a B#%#!. He ran at me and attacked me. By this I mean he shoved me and started punching me. He went so far as to jerk my glasses off my face and before I could get them from him, he snapped them in two. He tried to ram his fingers in my eyes and actually his fingernail left a pretty ugly scab just beneath one of my eyes. After all was said and done I found out that some kids had bullied him at school – pushing him down some steps and spitting in his face – and he carried that anger over to home and took it out on me.
My mother feels I should kick him out, a friend of mine feels like he belongs in an institution permanently somewhere (he was in a hospital for troubled kids about 7 times earlier in his life before he lived here and before he was adopted) and another foster child in my home (younger) has now made armor that he thinks I should wear for protection from this child – LOL.
I personally don’t feel he’s all that dangerous but he definitely has some serious issues and nothing seems to help. And I’m afraid he could be a danger to himself and to me as he gets older if this doesn’t get under control immediately. It doesn’t happen real often – maybe once every 3 or 4 months. I’m still not ready to give up on him. Tons of adults have – literally dozens of people have had him in their homes and kicked him out over the years. I think that’s part of the problem.
Any suggestions? What can I do? He has been taught tons of anger management techniques in therapy and from me but he won’t use them. He refuses to. How can I help him make the right choices to control his anger? Better yet, what can I do to help him get rid of the anger that’s causing these outbursts?
Jaylyn