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Distancing Myself from My Abusive Father: Guilt, Pain, and the Need for Healing. Please read this and help me understand what should I do?
This is the first part of my story- [https://www.reddit.com/r/AskIndia/comments/1hg0c61/was\_i\_wrong\_to\_call\_the\_cops\_on\_my\_abusive\_father/](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskIndia/comments/1hg0c61/was_i_wrong_to_call_the_cops_on_my_abusive_father/) After this incident, my mother and I started living separately from my father. For the past two days, I’ve been replaying everything that happened in my head, and it’s been taking a toll on me mentally. Today, he came home, and my mother mentioned that he seemed upset and asked me to talk to him. I told her to first ask if he regrets hitting me. Instead, he started shouting, telling my mother, "Karma will come back to you," and firmly said, "No, I don’t regret hitting you both. What you did was wrong." All we did was say things that annoyed him—nothing that could justify choking or slapping us. He kept blaming my mother for separating his daughter from him but didn’t show any remorse for the real reason I’ve distanced myself from him—his attempt to choke me and his repeated verbal abuse. I don’t know what to do or how to feel because, deep down, I still feel bad about everything that happened. Yet, he continues to shamelessly blame us for his own behavior, refusing to take any accountability.4
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