Childhood If You Were Big/strong/powerful Enough To Hit Your Abuser Back, Would You Have?

[Mafia_Science]

The abuser was my mother. I was taller and stronger than her by the age of 13, but the abuse continued on for years. I never hit her back, it didn't even cross my mind.

Would you have hit your abuser back if you had the strength to overpower them?

 

[illusionist]

It would have needed a lot of mental strength...both the thought of the consequences, and the belief that I deserved it, put all thoughts of retaliation out of my head.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

Too terrified, yet my sister did many times and scared the hell out of my abusive father.

 

[Snowflake]

I would have been killed.

 

[void]

@Mafia_Science

Do you know WHY you didn't?
I do...I'm just wondering if you do.

 

[Abstract]

Never.

 

[Mafia_Science]

@void She would've yelled and screamed at me for hours, which I can't stand. She probably would've started crying very loudly and start hurting herself. I would most definitely been sent into foster care (which I wouldn't mind, it's just I'm unsure if someone i the area would want to take me in), and she might've called the cops or used a large, blunt object to retaliate. She would've also told people about it.

Additionally, it's just not in my nature to hit people.

 

[Mafia_Science]

@gizmo sorry that happened to you, but good for your sister!

 

[void]

@Mafia_Science

Those are surface reasons.

Are you willing to go deeper?

Why did you not use your will to overcome her will?

The answer is very powerful.

 

[AngelMom]

I would have only wished I did. I have c-ptsd and was diagnosed after my son passed away last summwer. and reality of my childhood surfaced. Abuse I was taught to hide. I bury my son and now everyone is supporting my father and I'm a liar. I'm not his victim now, if I knew then, and had the strength to fight like I can now..I was captive under my father's control, the man who sexually assaulted me for years. Now I bare the Scars he's left..

 

[Sideways]

With my dad? Not a chance.

He was my dad. What happens after I strike back? Do I get kicked out of home? I couldn't have survived that.

And anyway, how the hell was I to know? After all, at the time, that's what daddies did to their little girls, like tying my shoelaces for me. Trying to stop it in any way simply wouldn't have occured to me, so I wouldn't have hit him for the same reason I never asked him to stop, and the same reason I never complained to anyone about it.

 

[Stickler]

One of my alters went up to stab my dad in the chest when he was asleep. We were 6.
I only recently remembered this. We stood there and realized we were too small to kill him that way.

If only we had known we could have stabbed him in the eye with a much narrower knife...:D

We unrepentantly despise him. It feels so good.:)