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Grew up next door to a kid whose life was basically a slow-motion car wreck. Mom had the full bingo card of mental disorders and ran the house like some kind of narcissist cult. She booted the dad out when the kid was hitting puberty, forbade contact completely, and then just unloaded daily psychological warfare on him. Constant ridicule for showing emotion, second-guessing every decision he tried to make, tearing him down whenever he acted like a normal human.

By high school the dude had no self-esteem, no confidence, couldn’t make decisions without spiraling, because every time he tried to do anything she was there to mock it. Decades later she still called him “her child” in front of his friends, extended family, even strangers—like she literally refused to recognize him as an adult. Watching that dynamic was surreal.

End result? Scar tissue carved into his brain. Couldn’t function in society, couldn’t trust himself. Permanent damage. And here’s the kicker—mom acted like she was the victim whenever anyone questioned her.

After seeing that, I’m convinced boys should automatically be removed from single-mother households at 13. Either send them to their fathers, a foster father, or some kind of boys’ academy. Otherwise you get broken men wandering around who never even had a shot.