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this post and would like not to let it pass without comment. In the first part of my response I will do my best to explain how Dean’s behavior toward Sam meets a lot of the criteria for intimate partner abuse, because the OP does not seem to grasp the argument we are making. I will assume good faith, though - this is a difficult
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ETA: I have major PTSD but it hasn't made me repeat the pattern. I made that decision.
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Oh, totally. Dean learned his bullshit somewhere. It doesn't mean he cannot help himself or that he's entitled to cause pain because of it (especially not to Sam, since even under the stupid ~cosmic justice~ rubric, John put Sam through quite enough as well). People adapt; sometimes those adaptations are perverse.
Dean came busting in saying THERE IS NEVER ANYTHING I WOULD PUT IN FRONT OF YOU when in fact we'd seen him do that for a good part of S8.
ha, yup. Dean's ~poor bruised fee-fees have been leaving Sam in the dust for a long time.
That response of Dean's really angered me, because it did not seem to come from a truly loving place. Screaming at someone who is that vulnerable is showing love? I don't think so.Yes, exactly. It takes a pretty special kind of asshole to make "I don't want you to die" be just blatantly ( ... )
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AZAZEL = ONLY RELIABLE NARRATOR VOICE OF TRUTH OBVS. lol.
Like. Just because Dean rationalizes John's abuse of Sam - what was it, back in Bugs? when Sam pointed out John was a jackass to him and Dean was like "no, he had to put you in line!" like, he was only shitty to you because you DESERVED it! - doesn't mean WE have to accept it.
Dean was the perfect protector and martyr who loves his Sammy more than life and who would take blows for him or sacrifice food and bravely and willingly starve himself to save Sam one moments pain
Yeah, really wish people would acknowledge the blatantly obvious, that "Dean did everything he could reasonably be expected to do" =/= "everything Sam could reasonably need to develop as a person." Nobody would let a school-age child be the sole caretaker for a puppy, because they just can't handle that, even if they are very good kids who do their best.
When I noted that John told Dean to kill Sam basically if he got out of line, ( ... )
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