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<blockquote data-quote="Raw" data-source="post: 210226" data-attributes="member: 6428"><p>"In that first memory of my father, when I was just a little boy, what I feel is absolute terror. As I sit here writing this, tears come to my eyes because it is very sad that little boy was so terrified of his father." </p><p><span style="color: #990026">[SIZE=-1]***[/SIZE]</span>"What my father did do that was traumatic and excessive is take me down and tickle me. I hated that. I hated it so much that by the time I was about 9 or 10 I heard someplace, in some context, about "mind over matter" and I willed myself not to be ticklish anymore. I realized in Recovery that tickling me was probably the only way it was okay for my father to be physically intimate with me. He certainly would never hug me - so his way of being physically close to me was to tickle me. </p><p>How sad that my father's only way of being physically intimate with me was abusive." <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/laugh.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":laugh:" title="Laugh :laugh:" data-shortname=":laugh:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Raw, post: 210226, member: 6428"] "In that first memory of my father, when I was just a little boy, what I feel is absolute terror. As I sit here writing this, tears come to my eyes because it is very sad that little boy was so terrified of his father." [COLOR=#990026][SIZE=-1]***[/SIZE][/COLOR]"What my father did do that was traumatic and excessive is take me down and tickle me. I hated that. I hated it so much that by the time I was about 9 or 10 I heard someplace, in some context, about "mind over matter" and I willed myself not to be ticklish anymore. I realized in Recovery that tickling me was probably the only way it was okay for my father to be physically intimate with me. He certainly would never hug me - so his way of being physically close to me was to tickle me. How sad that my father's only way of being physically intimate with me was abusive." :laugh: [/QUOTE]
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