[vaudine]

LOL! My grandma would send me out with a description of the kind of switch to bring. Anticipation of the switching was as bad or worse than the actual happening.

vaudine

[KrisKrinkle]

Didn't happen to me personally, but I distinctly remember a boy coming back to his mother with one too small to suit and being told to go get another. He looked severely unhappy :)

[NewRomeTacitus]

My heartfelt sympathies. It got to where I became numb cutting them knowing that it wasn’t about punishment. It was about sadism and the person you were under was the one needing attention.

I hope you’ve arrived at or are coming to terms with it as I am doing. So much crap is written about how the abused become abusers themselves. Like we have no hearts or free will.