My Stepfather, Cruel And Unusual Punishment

I caught my parents and stepfather red-handed in lies. There are secrets with the family and stepfamily. And when I try to communicate, they stonewall me. They don't want communication. They want to avoid accountability.

So if no communication is what you want, no communication is what you'll get. I'll sit at your home and tell you nothing. Tell you absolutely nothing. I'll give you silence. Just like you give me silence.

I suspect the reason they don't communicate is because the secrets are as bad as I'm imagining and they're protecting even bigger secrets.

My stepfather likely had bad intentions to torture me.

And someone says, "we can understand why... you wrestled with his daughter circa 25 years ago."

But they say, "they don't want to take accountability for that because if they do, I'll be angry. I'll be so, so angry... as I should be. And they don't want to take accountability.

But I've caught them in lies and they stonewall me.

So they basically... I'm living here. They give me silence. I give them silence and on we go.

They say, "I feel badly for your stepfather in a way because put yourself in his shoes. Imagine someone wrestled with your daughter. Obviously you would be angry at them...

But they say, "what he put you through was unimaginable pain and suffering. It was so sadistic, so evil, so unfathomable. The punishment didn't fit the crime. Or the punishment didn't fit what I did. It was cruel and unusual punishment. It was so over the top, it's like, what? What is this? Are you trying to give this guy cancer? Are you trying to ruin this guy's life?

So, while people, understand, oh, if someone wrestles with your daughter obviously you're going to be angry. What he did was so ridiculous, so over the top.

I was a sweet, sensitive, kind kid, and he's just this sadistic, evil military man, intense monster.

So, at this point, no one can really empathize with him anymore because he's sabotaged this sweet and sensitive kid. He's a sadistic sexual sadist. Let's call a spade a spade. It's crystal clear.

But they say, "we understand why he did it, but it's just like... Yeah, man. It's almost put this guy in like this cruel and unusual punishment death camp.