My time

My life in Texas was going to be great, better than great! I had so much hope and love for our little family, Dave, me, Treyson, Loki, Louie (dobermans). You could say we did have some great years, it’s the ending that sticks with us. It’s never the positives we remember, always the bad. The first few years we did great. We got Dave out of student loan debit and credit card debit. We bought our “forever home” with a pond and we installed an in-ground pool. We had it all…until COVID. 

I don’t know how to describe it, but people changed, tons of people. There were so many suicides during COVID, the loneliness, the jobless, the fear of infection, etc. We all changed in some way or another, good or bad, we all changed during COVID. Two years of our lives locked down, the world divided, the fear instilled in us, and some of us didn’t make it. 

The divorce rate during and after COVID was the highest in record years. Why? Because we got locked in our homes, pushed with fear, everyone having their opinions. Work was harder for everyone, some even lost their jobs. You could include me, but that’s not as honest, and we will get to that. 

Like I said, COVID changed us all. Dave no longer wanted us in his life. He will say he tried but Treyson going through puberty during COVID… that’s what “did him in”. Treyson was home schooled and Dave worked remote. They both got to stay home all day while I got to go to work. I loved that job, loved my boss, the loved the owners, everything about it, did I mention I loved that job. Anyways, during my job, I would get multiple calls from Dave and Trey, arguing over something, everything. I felt like I had two kids around the same age arguing like I did with my brothers when we were younger. This was a grown ass man and an asshole pre-teenager bouncing off the walls. (Yeah, I called my son an asshole, all teenagers are!)

Dave and Trey got along the first five years, Trey was ages seven to twelve years old. Dave’s maturity level was pretty much the same as Treyson’s age, which I should have realized prior. Dave did teach him how to ride a bike, throw a football, landscaping, play video games, and, my personal favorite……how to be verbally abusive.