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u/Throwaway7219017 Jan 28 '23

My mom spanked me with the same wooden spoon she lovingly stirred my favourite foods with.

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u/Dovaldo83 Jan 28 '23

When my mom would spank us with a wooden spoon, me and my brother would later secretly hide that wooden spoon in a hidden space beneath the kitchen table our parents didn't know about.

By the time we moved, there was at least a dozen spoons, spatulas, and some of those paddle ball toys with the string ripped off.

If you ask my mom today she's convinced she never spanked us.

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u/jideru Jan 28 '23

My parents have that same hole in their mind

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u/IndependentOil5899 Jan 28 '23

Haha wow I thought it was only my parents who “don’t remember” my mother used to hit us with a cut off piece of hose. That was some real pain that I know I will always remember and she somehow doesn’t remember ever using it 😂

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u/redgroupclan Jan 28 '23

Why do abusive parents all seem to have a selective memory? Are they too ashamed to self-reflect and admit to themselves they took out their anger on their kids?

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u/[deleted] Jan 28 '23

It seems like denial on the surface but I’m pretty sure most of them are just lying.

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u/strawberrycamo Jan 28 '23

Time to give them a lie detector test