I too am part of a broken home. My parents separated when I was still a toddler. My dad was an abusive alcoholic who left my mom for another woman so it was all up to my mom to raise me and my 2 sisters. I have no recollection of them arguing in front of us but both of my parents would say bad stuff about each other that put us in the middle of their "fighting". It felt like a tug-of-war and it was very confusing, especially because I was only a child back then. We never got to spend that much time with our dad or if we did he was usually drunk so that was not fun to be around. He'd buy us material things thinking that that would be enough but he was never really there for us.

Hey Suzy, I didn't know about your family situation.

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I have major commitment issues because I'm afraid of either becoming my mother and having such bitterness towards the world and having everyone afraid of me or becoming my father who has become so unhappy and submissive to everything that goes on around him.Because that's all I've known, I feel like that's what I'm destined for. I don't want that.

I feel the same way. I don't want what happened to them happening to me.