Okay, so one day, out of the blue, my mom asks me, "How would you feel if you can go back to school and live with your grandparents?" I was all over it. I was asking what I can do to make it happen...Remember, I still believe she has Full Custody of us. Believe it or not, this is not the first time she's dumped me at my grandparents' house. She did it the first time in Arizona during my sixth grade year, except it wasn't so subtle that time. I was at a Citrus Farm and came back a few hours later and all my siblings plus my mom, were gone. Didn't know where they went until a week later.
Anyways, we meet my grandparents half way between Cuidad Juarez, Mexico and Farmington, New Mexico. I get to Farmington and start nine weeks late into my freshman year of high school. Another nine weeks later, I find out the my dad got my mom arrested, when she had three of my siblings with her. Two went back and the other went into a Group Home. My dad and step-mom took a plane and picked up the one in Group Home. The other two were sent back into Mexico. I eventually end up living with my dad.
The Fit hit the SHan! Okay, so there was a "honeymoon" phase as one of my friends and therapist has told me before. A few months of bliss and then the I felt the crack of my dad's whip. Got blamed for everthing that went wrong. Well, long story short, my dad ended up driving me to think of suicide.
Matthew it sounds like you've gone through a lot of trials and tribulations, and I'm sorry that all of this has happened to you. You must be pretty strong to not only live through it, but talk about it. I wish I had your courage.
ReplyDeleteThat's intense, man. I know what it's like. I might be back in Utah, but I had my own experience with a psychopathic mother, violent stepfather, and two months sealed in the back of a truck. Just keep on keepin' on, in the words of Joe Dirt.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't sound like you're putting the whole story down, or maybe you don't know the whole story? Your dad was a couple hours away from picking you up with your sibling at the Group Home, but after talking to your grandparents (they told him he would be responsible for your medical bills when you broke your arm) he left you in their care until things were in his favor.
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