Slap on the wrist or soap in my mouth we're nothing.
A belt? Slap to your face ?
Listen, I was raised well, I knew my parents loved me, but there wasn't a feeling of unconditional love
In the non religious world, not getting kicked out for not following the rules is easy.
Oh lets wake him up at 8:34am to say shema.
What you trimmed your beard?!?
What is that garbage you're reading.
And yes, my father losing his marbles over gebrochts at the Seder table, I don't go to my parents, not Shabbat, not chagim
It makes my keh 94 year old grandmother sad and it makes my mother sad but eh?!? I'm not interested in having chumros and hiddurim shoved down my throat, pass.
But the getting hit with a belt caused me to detest most things that caused this, usually yeshiva, shull, Shabbat table.