Since I've known him, my partner has gone on at length about his awful childhood at the hands of his foster parents, he received many beatings, including a fractured sternum and skull whilst in their care. He hasn't seen them for years, he doesn't call or send cards. He mentioned he couldn't understand why people like that got paid to foster etc etc and that the council should have to pay compensation for placing him there. I asked him once why he didn't get moved if it was so bad but he said that his foster parents always put on a good front to the authorities.
We went to visit relatives of his last night and the conversation turned to other relatives. While listening to his uncle I learned that the foster parents were his actual parents. His foster siblings were his brother and sister. There was no mention of those awful injuries, or the repeated beatings, just that his mum was difficult to get on with.
He must have noticed that I looked puzzled, as when we left he said he had felt like a foster child. After asking me never to mention anything about the subject to his relatives, he then revealed his dad used to interfere with the other (foster?) children and I would cause problems if "I raked up the past by asking questions".
I tried to bring it up again when we got back to his but he refused to discuss it. I'm now questioning everything, when we've had problems in the past he has blamed it on being a foster child and his experiences and insecurity about that. I have always given people the benefit of the doubt but right now I feel like he's let me down. There is something nagging my gut now, am I right to feel like this or am I reading too much into things?