Thank you! Both of my parents are deceased, actually. My father was manic-depressive, so I had a volatile family life. He was not very nice to my mother, very verbally abusive (and I married a verbally abusive man, no surprise). My mother was a sweet woman, but I had a lot of anger and resentfulness that he put up with my father treating her the way he did. I guess I thought she was weak. I was not a very nice kid, kind of a brat. My father, when I was younger, wasn’t sick, and I wanted to always be with him, until he got sick, and then I hated him and wished my mother would leave him. She never did.

But beyond that, you were looking for some insights into my relationship. What would you want to know?