Pots?????
I remember once my mother did abuse me when I was 8 with a strait up beat down, not a regular spanking.
A few days earlier she went into the woods and cut a stick, not a twig, but a STICK. It was so big that it stood up in the corner and it was taller than I was and had a circumference of about 2 inches. I am not exaggerating.
Well I woke my baby brother up b/c I didnt want to take a nap and I threw a tantrum. She came in the bedroom and dragged me off the bed by my ankles and pulled me into the living room and she beat the **** outta me with that stick until it broke. Then she picked up the broken parts and beat me with those. She beat me so bad and so long that my father had to come in there and literally PULL her off me. She said something that I'll also never forget. He said, " What are you trying to do, kill her?" and she said "YEAH YEAH I am! Let me go!!!" and she was struggling to get at me, while I was lying on the floor limp.
I laid there for at least 15 min before I could move. I went to go sit on the porch and I LITERALLY could not sit down b/c it hurt. I had cuts, not welts, but cuts from my neck to my feet and I am not exaggerating.
This is something I will never forget. Never.
Everytime I remind her of it, she always has amnesia but I know shes lying. She has to remember that.
This is OT but thanks for letting me vent.