My cycle of abuse lasted until I was well into my 30s! As a young child I remembered being physically abused by both my parents, mostly my mother, unfortunately. She drank a lot when I was kid and was an angry drunk. She usually either hit us with her hand (or spoon) or grabbed the closest object and threw it at us (shoes,ashtrays, pots and the like).  Dad usually got out the belt, buckle side if you were really bad.  Verbal abuse was an everyday event, never being good enough, being the reason for their unhappiness or practicing poor language [...]