A Father's Abusive Relationships

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The father was abusive on some level, however, that doesn 't disregard the fact that the son relishes attention and contact from his father. Even though the father can be abusive to a degree, the son can still crave that attention and love from his father that he longs to have but doesn 't. This can be tied to relationships outside of domestic violence. If a person is abused in a relationship and had the choice to break up, they wouldn 't because they may think he or she may be doing it out of love; the same thing applies in the poem. The boy may be thinking it is out of love or craves that love and wants him to be a father figure so bad that he disregards the cruelty of the situation and doesn 't realize it 's abuse. Furthermore, if the