Dad - Get help. I'm serious. Just go and get some help. I have grown up with your mood switches, your verbal abuse, your anxieties, your inability to come out of your routine, your OCD tendencies, and I'll tell you now - it sucks. I'm sick of walking on egg shells every time we stay in case we open the wrong door, stay in the shower too long, stay out shopping too late, use the wrong teabag, put the bin lid down wrong. I'm sick of you having a go at me because my car has a tiny oil leak the minute I walk through the door - "Hello, how was the journey?" would have been nice instead if "Don't park your bloody car on my driveway, it's leaking." I'm sick of you looking at your watch every 5 minutes when you visit here because you're "out of your routine" and you can't deal with it. You want to know why my brother moves in with his girlfriends so quickly? To get away from you and your "routines". You want to know why I moved out at 18 and never moved back home? To get away from you.
I'm sick of you ruining every nice weekend I could have with my Mum. I needed my Mum this weekend and yet again, you ruined it. The way you spoke to DH was disgusting - he was trying to do you a favour! If we hadn't have been already in the process of getting ready to leave anyway, I would have walked out and come home. It's no good half heartedly apologizing to me, it's DH you should be apologizing to, but no, you won't because you "don't do sorry" and you don't feel you do anything wrong. If you ever raise your voice to Pud like that, it'll be the last time you see her. I won't have her go through the childhood I did because of you. The excuse that Grandad was like itdoesn't wash - yes Grandad had OCD and anxiety too. but he never spoke to people the way you do.
Mum - I'm sorry, I love you, but I won't be coming down for a little while. I can't deal with him any more, and I won't have MY family spoken to like they're s**t on his shoe. I love you, but I partially blame you. You let him speak to you and us like that for years because you were young and didn't like conflict. Now he's simply a nasty, uncontrollable man who can't help himself and I sometimes feel if you'd put your foot down at the start of your marriage, he wouldn't be this bad.
DH - I'm so, so, so sorry my "father" spoke to you that way. I have told him it's unacceptable. Thank you for holding me while I cried myself to sleep last night, and I don't blame you for saying you don't want to go down there for a few months. I don't either.
vixiepoo! That's terrible! I hope he's ashamed of himself. How has he not broken his hand?!
these doors are specially made as well as they're narrow door frames! Cant afford them at the moment... 
Mine haven't even met Alex yet. I don't think some parents realize how lucky they are to have their grandkids and families close. It's a shame 
