I was having an argument with my mom because she married a loser and she always puts him before us, meaning my sister and I. They had two children together and my sister and I are from the first marriage. She insisted we call him Dad. They married in 2003, shortly after he began abusing my sister and I. He would call it "discipline". And everytime he hurt us, she would do nothing... she'd yell at him and that it. His abuse ranged from beating us with wire hangers, kicking the shit out of us, using electrical wires as whips, cutting our hair and so much worse. As children we were afraid to say anything. I'm 20 and my sister is 19, and we still carry much of the emotional trauma with us to this day. It bothers me so much that she can easily brush it off. She's like, "if it bothers you so much, go get help". I would need help if you stopped it in the first place, no child would ever have to go through that! I'm crying right now cause I am so baffled by what we went through. She insists we move on, it's a thing of the past. I can't, I won't.