And that means it's okay?
My father was an extremely verbally abusive man. His vice? Sarcasm. His go-to excuse? Sarcasm. If he said something that made my sister or I cry when we were children, and we ran and acted like "babies" and "tattled on him to mom," then he would try and defend it with that he was kidding. He was only playing. We had to stop being babies, stop being sensitive, etc. Through our teenage years, when we were mandated to see him and not old enough to make our own decisions about it according to the courts, the sarcasm was just as bad, only we both had learned sharpness of the tongue to where we could give him a taste of his own medicine. If he got upset/angry/insulted? "It's sarcasm." Let me tell you, a lot of it never was. To me, sarcasm is something that should be used humourously, and if it's used sharply, it should be rare and on occasion because we all lose our cool sometimes; to me, sarcasm is not a weapon. What he said was not funny, it is not something that should be passed off as sarcasm, and in my opinion, he's trying to bullshit himself out of the situation so it again becomes your fault and not his. It is verbal abuse, "sarcasm" or not, and the fact he never defended it before things got out of hand only leads to more evidence of his bullshitting in my mind.
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My question is why hasn't it? I don't mean to attack anyone here, but the more you forgive his behaviour, the more he'll see it as something he can get away with. The more you tell him he'll lose you if he doesn't shape up, it's going to become nothing more than an empty threat. Don't say it if you aren't prepared to leave the next word of abuse that comes out his mouth, or it's never going to stop.
My father was an extremely verbally abusive man. His vice? Sarcasm. His go-to excuse? Sarcasm. If he said something that made my sister or I cry when we were children, and we ran and acted like "babies" and "tattled on him to mom," then he would try and defend it with that he was kidding. He was only playing. We had to stop being babies, stop being sensitive, etc. Through our teenage years, when we were mandated to see him and not old enough to make our own decisions about it according to the courts, the sarcasm was just as bad, only we both had learned sharpness of the tongue to where we could give him a taste of his own medicine. If he got upset/angry/insulted? "It's sarcasm." Let me tell you, a lot of it never was. To me, sarcasm is something that should be used humourously, and if it's used sharply, it should be rare and on occasion because we all lose our cool sometimes; to me, sarcasm is not a weapon. What he said was not funny, it is not something that should be passed off as sarcasm, and in my opinion, he's trying to bullshit himself out of the situation so it again becomes your fault and not his. It is verbal abuse, "sarcasm" or not, and the fact he never defended it before things got out of hand only leads to more evidence of his bullshitting in my mind.
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but i always say how I feel and make a point that he'll lose me if he doesn't change so he'll pick his act up.
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