telling kids

[Fightsong]

Has anyone else here been told stories about their parent's own childhood and adult sexual and intimate traumas that they should never have heard, as young children themselves?

[Three Roses]

Yes. My dad shared several stories with me when we were alone. Horrible. Changed the way I saw people, men in particular. These stories would've been inappropriate to tell an adult and he told his young daughter. 

[Fightsong]

yes, indelibly engraved in my mind. Images and Secrets of the worst kind.Mine to keep.  I'm glad its not just me...

[Wife#2]

I was a teenager and asking pretty tough questions. Honestly, the question was why she seemed so angry at/about her mother, who'd been dead for over a decade by then. Instead of putting me in my place, she did tell me about a couple of incidents, though without much detail. It made me cry for her childhood. We never talked about it again. I left it alone and she didn't share anything more about it later.