There’s sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.