We both retired after 20 years, Dad is still in. We still see our parents, dad reminds us how we owe him for raising us
Me: After I left school, my father demanded that I repay him for all of the money they had spent in my education and clothing, rent and so on, to the point where I left home.
My father was a physical bully who enjoyed beating me at every opportunity, those opportunities provided by my willing mother – who enjoyed me being beaten.
I thought, some hopes – it was not as if I had anything to do with my birth – however, in later life they found ways to get their money back from me and it seems to me, I was repaid that money, as my inheritance, when the last of my 2 parents died, my mother – the rest of her estate she left to friends and hospitals, as a way of enhancing her death and hopefully ending up in a good place, rather than a bad one, on the other side, if there is one.
R