Unfortunately they were based off of people I know in real life. The world we live in, eh?
Damn, dude, I hope you, or someone you know, hadn't gone through this kind of stuff, or if you did, that you're at least okay now...
Been years since then, the people involved are now in a much healthier relationship with their family. Still, was a story I felt that needed to be written, with its own little twist of course.