<p>If anybody doesn't feel like sharing personal experiences, that's fine.</p>
<p>I'm just interested to see how fights go down at home, between siblings or parents. SERIOUS ones, not ones over clothes or tv, but like ones over money, food and other responsibilities.</p>
<p>Usually in my house people scream at the top of their lungs. Plus, it is a one story house so there isn't much place to get away. Sometimes they get physical, and I have to step in.</p>
<p>I'm sorry you have to deal with physical fights. You might want to look into family therapy or talk to a GC about that if you think someone could get seriously hurt.</p>
<p>My home varies between yelling and speaking very slowly, softly, and sarcastically (like after I tried to cut a pizza with a pie cutter--and hello, pizza's pie, no?--"Now, you know how to hold this pizza cutter, right? You make a straight line here...."). It's not too bad, but it doesn't always make sense. My friends come over and can't ever figured out what triggered a parent's reaction.</p>
<p>physical, eh? </p>
<p>i hope everything is OK...no abuse or anything</p>
<p>It's only me and my mom in the family, no siblings and we usually escalate into verbal arguments at the most, never physical...go figure. As corny as it sounds, we usually try to understand each other and be empathetic and don't run into too much trouble.</p>
<p>With my parents (fights between the two of them as well as fights between one or both of them and one or all of us kids), it involves a lot of yelling, then my dad trying to be humorous, which annoys my mom. I only fight with my siblings if there are people around to agitate the situation (mostly true with my younger sister--we're very close when we're alone, but not so much when other people are around). Lately, the fighting in my house has been bothering me a lot more than usual, but I think I'm just overly sensitive right now.</p>
<p>Haha my grandparents that live with us get on my nerves they never shut up and you can't tell them to quit arguing because they are like waaay older than me</p>
<p>physical? im sorry to hear that :(
my parents yell.very loudly.
and then i scream back
and get this: i get punished not for whatever prompted the screamfest, but for the mere act of raising my voice
it's realllllly frustrating because if i want to win a fight, I have to keep calm and talk at a normal sound level when my parents are yelling</p>
<p>Physical in your home? Jeez, every thought of buying a taser, or pepper spray?</p>
<p>Well, it all started on the day after Christmas. We all knew I was going to be a bad day when my after my father started drinking at 10 in the morning. So, he started off like he always does, ridiculous and loud. He would yell stupid slurs and expirience intense verbal diarhea. So, around 2 O'clock, my father is already drunk and decides to have some fun, he wants to make a fire in the back yard. After getting it started, he throws our Christmas tree into the flames, ornaments and light included, and just sits there. My mother tries to grav as many of the ornament off as she can, while cursing him with all her now drunken furry.</p>
<p>Well, after a while, around 4, my dad decides he wants some more coke, the soda, for his bourben. He comes inside and discovers that my brother drank the last of it, so he beats my brother with part of an electrical cord. my brother,a 9 or 10 years old now in tears, runs inside and hides. So, now my father decides to drive to the grocery store, with me in the car. I was yelling that I did not want to go, but I was 11-12, so it did not mean much. So, he speeds around 50 down our street, which has a speed limit of 25 miles perhour, and yells "If I die, you are gonna' die with me." After do a complete doughnut in the middle of the road to turn, we go to Food Lion for the coke.</p>
<p>After we get home, the fight begins. Him and my mother really get into it, with words I cannot say. As I am cleaning the shed for some reason, he comes outside and says it it not good enough and tries to hit me with a rake. I dodge and run inside and tell my mother that we need to call the cops. She tells my father that she will, but he ignores her and goes upto my room. In my room, he throws my chair into the wall, make holes where the wheels went through. </p>
<p>After a half an hour, he comes down and says that he spent ihs time up there "trying to **** himself" because they say if you can do that you can kill himself. I may remind you that he had a knofe in his hand when he was saying all this. Next, he goes outside and tries to drive away. My mother, not realizing his boldness, puts her hand through the wondow only to find my father rolling it up and starting to drive. So, my mother is getting pulled my the car with her entire arm in the window, while she is pulling his hair and scraching his face for her life. He stops and storms inside, which is where the true destruction begins.</p>
<p>Well, through the list is longer, I forgot alot of it because I was a while ago. He threw my mother makeup basket all other the house, ripped down the curtains, slammed a hole through his bedroom door, busted up all the dished in the sink, and threw what was left of the Chirstmas turkey through the window. Well, my mother had enough, and was screaming at him saying she would call the cops, but he ignored her yet again. She finally calls, and he is promptly arrested and taken to jail.</p>
<p>This was the final major fight, and was the catalyst for the divorce. We a middle class family, not some trashy family as it seems. My father is now much better, and yesterday was his one year ofr someberness. He is more chill now, while my mother is still sufferening from the horrid marriage. My brother does not remeber that much, but I still do not like my father, but I still love him.</p>
<p>I think I win.</p>
<p>I've had some really nasty fights with my parents about college. Their ideas are different from mine. But it hasn't really been to extreme. I'm usually on speaking terms with them after a few days.</p>
<p>I think rmadden wins too. You should submit that as a college app essay or something. Although you changed tenses part of the way through, that could hurt your chances. :[</p>
<p>It usually always gets out of control because of my mother. Now that I think about the stuff she did and said when I was younger, she definitely was out of line and probably has some diagnosable problem.</p>
<p>I can't really comprehend what two little kids could do to anger her enough to start yelling profanity towards us, slamming doors, and making threats of leaving the house. It usually just ended up with my little brother and I apologizing profusely for reasons we did not even know, but we just wanted to diffuse the situation. She always apologized after her fits and never did anything physical to us though so thats cool. She did break a door once by slamming it too hard ahahahahaha :D</p>
<p>Its weird because aside from that everything was normal and she would be super affectionate. My dad was usually at work whatev.</p>
<p>Pretty much every other night real fights go down at my house. Never physical, though.</p>
<p>ive never had physical fights with my parents, just verbal. we cuss each other out sometimes but in the end, we dont really hate each other or anything. it just goes back to normal in the next day or so.</p>
<p>My mom argues with me any time I spend a penny - she's that stingy. Her and I have gotten into quite a lot of fights, both physical and verbal, although mostly verbal (and the "physical" fights are just her trying to hit me and me trying to defend myself). I'm in desperate need for new clothes right now because of how much I've grown over the past year, but she refuses to let me buy anything. The last time I bought clothes was four months ago, and all it was was a sweater and t-shirt. </p>
<p>Her parsimony really ticks (euphemism) me off. Our family is not by any means poor - my parents make a good 6-digits a year - but you would have NO idea by just judging our material possessions.</p>
<p>It's very peaceful around here. No fights...ever. I couldn't even imagine any conflict escalating to that level. Its only me and my mom though.</p>
<p>rmadden wins.</p>
<p>I get into really huge shouting matches with my mum</p>
<p>but physical fights with my stepdad</p>
<p>physical fights with my stepdad</p>
<p>Hope your relationship heals or whatnot.</p>