nparents that did everything in their power to make sure you never speak up as a child because they know they would be in so much trouble if people knew what they did to you

my parents genuinely did everything in their power to make sure 'what happens in the house stays in the house', to a really absurd degree, like yelling and shit over me telling my friends the smallest thing that happened in the house, my parents were fully aware of how evil they were and were so scared of anyone finding out about it, these fucking pussies