Drama Triangle Essay

My parents did not really get along very well, but they always functioned as if they did. Nothing ever stopped them from doing the task at hand placing all else on the back burner they would go along with what they knew – hard work. My father was an alcoholic and was also said to have suffered from manic depression in which he had received electrical shock treatments early on in their marriage. My mother was known as the good wife and mother, often abused by my father. Back then these things were kept a secret and what happened within the home stayed within the home.
I did not experience this with my father as much as my siblings did that is until I got older. I was very fortunate as the youngest and can only assume my father to some degree must have aged out of his violent tendencies to some degree …show more content…
Everyone seemed to be against one another, there was always an odd man out, what I would later come to know as The Drama Triangle. My father and my brother always had a contemptuous relationship. I would later learn that my father often beat my brother and that he was pretty much ousted from the family unit at a rather young age. Although my father had little guidance growing up he placed a lot of emphasis on hard work and his place as the head of the household. Meaning that kids were to be seen and not heard and any disrespect was intolerable. There was only really one occasion that I saw my father and brother be violent with one another. My memory a bit cloudy, I recall them standing outside of the screened in porch yelling at one another, it was getting dark and they were very loud, my father punched my brother hard in the face knocking out his front tooth and my brother in return threw a red brick at my father and hit him in the eye. This was a talked about event among my sisters for months to come. I think now that because I lived in a fantasy world and was captivated by the drama I viewed on TV