First post here so bare with me.

My father is a very short tempered person. It’s easy to set him off with extremely minor things... If I forget to hang my coat up I’m getting screamed at and berated, if I don’t keep my room spotless I get kicked out for the night, if my car isn’t clean he deflates my tires. God forbid he catches me playing video games.

I guess I’ll just say he beats me quite often too... don’t want to get too descriptive there to spare the reader.

Well, today I stood up to him for the first time and luckily I had an audience. We had just gotten done eating with our family friends and I went to let our dogs back in from the garage. While I was out there I grabbed a dr.pepper from the fridge and put the unopened coke I brought out back in the fridge.

My father sees me walk past him and proceeds to take the leash off of my big dog and begin to fold it in half. (This is no thin leash either, it’s a static climbing rope I made into a leash for our 170lb mastiff) He then yells in front of everyone for me to put the pop back. I was kinda stuck for a second and didn’t respond, I don’t like eyes on me and everyone there was looking at me. He then gets out of his chair and belts me across the side. Man did it hurt, but I took it and all it did was make me angry. I’m 20 years old, a powerlifter and a wrestler. I just stared at him, I went from looking like a deer in some headlights to veins popping out of my head I was so angry. He got in my face and said, “Are you fucking deaf.” To which I finally replied, “no.” He turns around to sit down expecting me wholeheartedly to put the pop back outside.

I then crack that fucking can open as loudly as I can. My moms mouth dropped, she knows he beats me and has always told me to just shut up and take it. “That’s just how your father is” she would always tell me.

Well I finally had it, if everyone had already seen him attack me with a leash and say nothing they then deserve to see worse.

And guess what? Worse didn’t come. He sat there looking like a dumb ass. I think he realized he had just hit his kid in front of everyone he knows.

Little does he know my moms filing for divorce and I’m filing for a name change next week. Enjoy having no friends, no wife and no kids dad. Today I realized I was right to hate you.

TL:DR: My dad hit me with a leash in front of his family friends and exposed himself as an abuser. Also his day of reckoning is soon upon him.