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The issues of my life all started at age two. At age two, my parents separated. My brother was six and my sister was four. We all coped with leaving every weekend to visit my dad. It wasn’t hard, especially because we were young. As years went on, things began to change. When I was four, my mom remarried a guy named Paul. He was different than my dad. He was a lot older than my mom but he seemed alright. My dad is a very mellow, quiet guy. Paul was obnoxious and self absorbed. But, for some reason, my mom adored him. He did help us three kids often. He worked hard and made good money.
Paul soon was hurt at work when I was around six. Paul began to stay home a lot after that. That is when everything went all downhill. Paul soon began drinking, pretty much all the time. My mom didn’t really mind until a year or so later. He began to show violence and quilt when he’d walk around the house. Soon, everything that I witnessed was scaring. Paul would hit my mom and say hurtful things to her. He always called her fat, which every man knows, thats how you destroy your girlfriend or wife. But, he never took it out on us kids. My sister was a heavyweight kid. She was very emotional as well. Paul soon realized he could ruin my mom but verbally abusing my sister. Everything that happened between Paul and my mom was her fault. He blamed every argument to something she said or done before. One day, everything snapped in my mom. She couldn’t take being in love with an abusive husband. She began to mope and slack around the house. My mom stopped attending events with her friends and stopped going to work functions. Most of the time, she was emotionally in pain. I had no idea to help. Every weekend we’d still visit my dad. I had a weird feeling my dad knew what was going on in that house. But, he didn’t know enough to help. We all hated that because we were scared for my mom. One evening, my siblings and I were in the kitchen. I heard loud crying and I’ve never heard that before. I realized it was my mom. I ran as fast as I could down stairs. My mother was leaning against our laundry hamper with a knife. This is where the scaring of a child starts. I screamed as loud as possible. I grabbed my mother so quick, it startled her. To this day, I am so glad I heard that crying. I am so happy I ran down stairs. My mom became my very best friend that day and still to this day.
After this occurrence, my mom decided to leave. I guess seeing her youngest child catching her in the act of harming herself damaged her. Hopefully it just changed her view on her marriage. But, to not cause a scene, we had to leave when Paul went to work. He would be furious if he saw us moving things out. My mom played hookie at work and we spent the whole day moving things. Our clothes, our beds, couches, etc. My uncles and grandma helped too. My family cared a lot about Paul but they didn’t know what was going on in that house until my mom called and asked for help moving. About this time, I was in fifth grade. Fifth grade was always that awkward stage for me. I never really liked my image, even though I was so young.
We moved into Marina Apartments right after we gathered our things from the house. . I really liked those apartments because my friends lived around there. It was all a new experience, living with just my mom and siblings. I was very excited though. My mom always gave me a lot of freedom. Paul always wanted me inside cleaning.
My life hasn’t been the easiest but my mom certainly made it work. I believe every child born in the 1990’s had something tragic happen to them.
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