Hello I am Zero's Brother

[Ski at 1SKY6]

Holy hell. Part of me understands that attitudes/beliefs were completely different 50 years ago but looking at it from the perspective of what we know today, that's terribly abusive and ignorant. Do they regret now what they did to you then?

It remained the invisable elephant in the room. They divorced and my father married a woman who gave him the son he never had. My mother never gave up her expectation that this demon could be excised from my being. They remained their entire lives with the established beliefs of their early upbringing that homosexuality is a sin condemned by god and a sickness according to the mental health industry. They were compassionate when I consented to the cure but later blamed me for that cure not working. I in turn felt I had let them down and a contrite apologetic posture was expected from then forward. They had no reason to feel badly since I was perceived as the guilty party and they had tried to save me from eternal damnation and the flaw in me that would overshadow any success achieved in my life.