Kim Lopp

I lived with a physically abusive father…. My mother had 4 children and wasn’t mentally strong enough to leave my father forever. She would grab us kids and run when the fighting was just too much, but she always went back because she couldn’t raise 4 children in the 70’s alone. I hated my mother for not leaving him. This series, although not accurate as far as resources truly available to domestic violence victims, does portray accurately the emotion, the heartache, and the mental breakdown of anyone in these situations. No movie could ever portray the true reality. Hollywood will always put their spin on drama for the general masses who have no idea what it’s like to live this way. Victims truly have flashbacks, as she did. Nightmares, emptiness, and voids in time. I binge watched this entire series in one day. Perhaps a mistake because I had the ugliest cry I’ve had in a very long time. This series opened old wounds long buried. My parents are both deceased, but he mentally tortured her, her entire life. And us 4 children…. Are all unstable and dysfunctional one way or another…. There is much more to my story, but this series reminded me of the hell We all endured and continue to remember. Alex was strong for her daughter… I envied that in the end.