hmmm

As a teenager, he used to beat his girlfriends. At 45, he drugged a cat then beat it to death with a shovel. His wife is very controlling and condescending. She is embarrassed that he sought help for his depression. She calls him "weak", and "avoiding the real world". Their son, a podiatrist, lives several states away. They are very proud of him, though he is so busy and so important, that he finds it difficult to visit. Their daughter is "a disgrace" and they are raising two of her children. Over several days he began to unearth long-buried guilts on a variety of topics. His wife was shocked, she had no idea what a "sick and twisted" man she was married to. She had tried so hard to mold him into the perfect citizen and she once considered him to be "respectable". Now, her visits even make me uncomfortable. I wonder what his relationship with his mother was like...