Betsy had tried to warn her mom not to get involved but kept my promise not to tell. We all sat around talked about it all for hours, even days. That was the top subject in our family being ripped apart. Everyone was picking sides and my mother was working on hers. She went to…

The house that I grew up in, the only house I’d known forever was exposed with only 4 poles holding it together. I felt that way myself, tread lightly I don’t have much holding me up. Dad was focused, never seen him so focused before. He didn’t want to talk, just work. He ripped through…

I wasn’t there when my mother talked herself out of this mess she created, she probably planned it that way. She had moved out of the house with just her clothes and went to get her new boyfriend, that’s also still married, and moved him to our small town. I don’t have all the details…

When I returned from Rome, my cousin Betsy and roommate Kailey, at the time, came and got me from the airport. Betsy, my cousin on mom’s side, had suspensions about my mother and asked me how I was with her moving out. I ended up spilling my guts to them on the three hours drive…

My mother had a gambling problem, she had such a problem that she borrowed money from everyone she could, my brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, even the gambling boat gave her a loan. My mother had dug herself a gambling debt for over a year without anyone questioning her. Tell me she’s not manipulative as hell…

For the next year, Tyler and Jordyn got married and she really tried to be there for Trey, even when Tyler wasn’t. There were some issues we had to deal with but Jordyn and I tried to get along for Trey’s sake. Once Tyler went back to his “old ways”, Jordyn found herself in the…

Treyson and I stayed in our small apartment for about 3 years when I noticed a man in his backyard playing with his Dobermans. It was just a joke naming him my “eye candy” while I was single. With Treyson’s daddy issues I couldn’t get myself to get close to anyone, afraid they would leave…

For Treyson’s first bday party, Tyler was caught smoking weed at my aunt’s house while we sang happy birthday. Tyler’s family was around but was never really helpful. They enabled Tyler and his addiction, I tried telling them that when I was pregnant, they didn’t listen.  Have you caught on yet? No, don’t worry, you…

How can three people be raised but the same two people and live their lives completely different than each other? I sat my parents down and expressed my concerns on Ben and his gf not helping with bills and not cleaning up after themselves. Why did I have to explain to my parents on the…

Once Trey was in my life, I had an opinion on things that I felt were important, like the house being clean for my kid to crawl. As I mentioned before, all of us back at our parents, Nick has 2 daughters that he gets every other weekend. Then Ben and his girlfriend, me and…