You should get that shit out in the open. My parents did the same thing to me and years later I told them about it. They had no idea how much violence and torment I witnessed and how much anguish that caused me. Had me fucked up for years.

Edit. Fuck that guy and his domestic violence story. "I'm upper-middle-class and I once heard my mom cry out behind closed doors but I don't want them to split up because I need dad's money and my mom to do shit for me."

My upper-middle-class mom was bipolar and off her meds and my upper-middle-class dad was irritable and not very bright which is a really bad combination for parents to have. They were well educated, big house, a couple cars, good school, nice neighborhood and none of that matters when the Christmas tree gets used as a defensive weapon.

I've tried, in my adulthood, really hard to see them as just two average people who made a series of unfortunate choices and found themselves in the end with a couple of terrified kids and a train wreck of a marriage. What to do then but drown all the pets in front of me to avoid having the petty task of dreaming up some long, drawn out story about where they might've run off to. Split the kids up. Send the boy's dim-witted, older sister to the Naval Academy for 4 years because she might have gotten GASP a venereal disease but not before throwing every one of her possessions out of her room and into the front yard along with the paperwork and the instructions for life, "You know the bus route."

I overheard WAY too much. Sorry about the rant. In closing, fuck that guy for deleting his comment too.

kthxbye