It became clear that this myth had been hatched to benefit only one person: himself. Somewhere along the line, my father had decided this was true to make himself feel better about the way he was treating my mother, and the way he was abusing me. Of course the awful, glaring flaw in this logic is that he had also been a monster to Tom too. It didn’t make sense. But of course it shouldn’t and it couldn’t. I was trying to fathom my father’s psychopathic behavior that was based on a huge delusion. Surely it was not a big leap to think he might have found his own logic to merit Tom’s abuse too?
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