Very good and insightful post. I disagree with the homo part, but I can't dispute much else. My parents are still married, but they are not a couple really. Mom threatened to leave him multiple times, and told me the first time when I was 10 and sister was 2. I remember it like it was yesterday almost 40 yrs later. Sitting in Kohl's parking lot, and she was bitching like crazy about him that day. I told her to stop talking about him like that. She replied "you think he's such a fucking great guy? (my mom despises swearing btw) "I want to leave his ass bcuz of how he treats me and you, and he told me".... "Go ahead. I will never give a dime to you or those fucking kids"
I have never looked up to him since, and quite frankly he was never home enough to do so. Always working, drinking, golfing, or doing some DIY project. It didn't/doesn't make me want to suck cocks like prime or vince abcdefg ultra wanna be entrepreneur though.
The muscles part....totally agree with. I talked about that years ago on Mayhem. My dad was in the paper in WI lifting weights at the new rec center they opened to get it attention. I wanted to be bigger and better than him to the point where he could just see it so he would never lay a hand on me again. Around 17 about a year after I started and had put on about 30lbs naturally he tackled me blindsided, turned me over, choked me, slapped me, and started calling me a pussy right by the stairs. I took it at first cuz "hey, he's my dad and I'm supposed to obey", but then something snapped. I pulled him down close to me so I could get under his armpits I guess....honestly, it happened so fast I don't know what I was thinking...when I say I snapped, I truly mean it.....anyway, I didn't even know my strength then. I threw him off of me like he was a fucking leaf and hanging feet down the stairs while his head was at the top and I was choking him asking who is the pussy now? I let him up. He tried to come at me again. I said let's go mother fucker as I walked toward him. He started running around the kitchen as I tried to get to him while he begged my mom to call the cops....which she did. They came, they didn't even listen to me, or do anything to him. They told me I either had to find a place to stay that night or go to jail. Luckily, my best friend's parents considered me part of the family so I got to go there. Long story short I kept getting bigger and stronger, and my dad never fucked with me again physically, and I started getting hot chicks attention and their pussies. So it all worked out.

I can truly say NO HOMO for me. LOL!