He abused drugs and alcohol, left regularly, and took my mother’s money, then came back begging my mother for forgiveness, saying that he will change. He wrecked our car, took me and my sister to bad places, and pretended to forget the bad things has done because he was under the influence. My mom, who believed we needed a father figure, constantly let him back in, struggling so we could live the “perfect life,” that she wished for us.
There was a lot building up to when she actually left him. The day he pulled the keys out of a moving car on the highway with us in it was my mom’s tipping point. She went to court and gained custody of us. When he went to jail my mom decided we needed to start a new life so she took us with her across the country from New Jersey to California. This decision was the best decision my mother had ever made and I praise her every day for her courage to start a completely new