Rachel had a verbally abusive father. “I heard everything I suppose a girl can hear. ‘You are so stupid. You are worthless. I wish we never had you. You make me sick.’ I grew up believing I was repulsive to my father, and I did everything I could to try and make him like me.” Abusive fathers are a too common horror. Accomplices, broken mothers, are a painful reality. Both of them often come from abusive homes where the cycle of pain is ruthlessly repeated and passed down.
