Hi again,

My childhood was pretty full on. My dad was abusive towards my mum, and he was cheating on her for quite some time. This all came into light and sparked some heavy domestic violence and emotional trauma for myself and my siblings.

They ended up working through it though, and they’re still married happily now.

His unfaithfulness did spark a lot of different events which were negative, though. It was almost like a snowball effect. Other than that, my childhood was pretty okay. We struggled financially to some extent, but my parents never tried to make that known to me. It was almost covered up. My dad had a lot of debts, so we ended up moving countries basically for that reason also.

But overall, his cheating (this was happening when I was about 4 or 5), really shook everything. And the byproducts of violence are some of the earliest memories I can recall.

Sincerely,

kiwiboy0897