Growing up my dad never worked, treated my mom, mentally retarded sister, and I like crap. Our house was full of roaches and mice even in the refrigerator. Even as a young child I knew my parents didn't know how to care for my sister. Social services was around all the time, but they never took us. When I was 5 my dad left me alone with one of his friends who stayed the night and he molested me. I can remember my parents not watching my sister well, she went missing several times being found once inside an old man's apartment, he had molested her, another time she was found at our city's homeless shelter, another time I can remember both my sister and I in this man's apartment, he exposed his genitals to us. When I was 8 my older cousin came to stay with us because he was kicked out of the trailer park where he live for inappropriate behavior with young girls, eventually he became a youth pastor and I became his victim. When I was twelve my mom tried to commit suicide, my dad blamed me.I went to live with my best friend's family where her dad was a drug addict, alcoholic pervert, and the life skills i learned there was how to scam a popular retail chain helping support their family. Things got a little better after meeting my husband, however we have struggled. We had our first baby young, our relationship, our family has dealt with domestic violence, drug addiction, extended family drama... Both of us have grown alot, kids are 10 and 14 now and so far have done well. I did recently earn myself a stay in jail and caused my family alot of financial strife do to my learned skill of retail scamming. I am absolutely done with that, completely clean of that for a year now. I found out I was pregnant 9 wks ago, shortly found out after that I was losing my job, found out shortly after that my pregnancy is high risk, found out a couple weeks ago the prognosis is worse.I know nomatter what we will be ok, our fam of 4 has overcome alot and we'll get through it. What I haven't mentioned yet is even though life has been right down sucky, God has always been there and pulled us through, some of us learn hard lessons the hard way and it does suck | |
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