• PugJesus@kbin.social
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    9 months ago

    My mother used to make me watch scary movies with her to toughen me up.

    Gave me nightmares for years.

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      9 months ago

      PugMary sounds like a difficult woman to grow up with, sorry you had to go through that.

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        9 months ago

        She was a single mother with somewhat archaic ideas of what a boy should learn from his father, and as I had no father in the picture, she took the task upon herself.

        It was a mixed bag. But she was sincerely trying her best out of parental love, and I didn’t turn out too fucked up, so mostly I look back on it with amusement.