When I was 6 me and my 3 other siblings went to a family friends house with my dad and they had a dog that just gave birth to puppies. My dad let us bring 2 home after begging him. My dad always would hit them with newspapers and never let them and was just really rude to them and nobody really knew why. We had these dogs for about 2 years and we loved them so much. One morning me and my siblings woke up and noticed that the dogs weren’t there and neither was my dad. My mom told us that my dad was getting rid of them. Me and my siblings cried the whole time he was gone pleading for my mom to stop him but she couldn’t do anything. He finally got home and no dogs were with him I don’t remember what or if he said something but ever since that day it hasn’t been the same between me and my dad. I am now 13 and I still don’t know where my best friends went and I have always felt a hatred for my dad (not just because of this) and I think it all went downhill when he took away my babies. :(

I been thinking real hard about even relaying these awful things about the person that I have admired the most, the person I have respected and revered my whole life but that now, has completely backstabbed me in the worst way possible. A few years ago, a scandal broke in my political family involving my mother. As you can imagine, it nearly broke my marriage and tore my husband’s family apart. My sister in law found my father in law and my mom talking on social media. The worst part of it, when I was confronted, I was accused of knowing about the whole affair and made it looked like I was an accomplice to the whole ordeal. When I had absolutely no clue to such a disgusting mess. I don’t know what neither of them were trying to accomplish and now, I’m the black sheep of the family. No one talks to me. While my father in law is still loved and honored. My mother the home wrecker and I pay the sins of her ordeals. She never once has said I’m sorry. Never! In her head, I’m better off without that side of the family. But it’s not about that; why did she do this to me? Why my father in law? Among so many men? Why him! I guess I’m just looking for an explanation and I know I will never get it from her. Because she just cannot accept she did anything wrong. I wish I could get her version because as of now, I only know everyone else’s but her’s. I always thought I didn’t need to hear her side because it’s not my place to question her, but I have kids who now have to suffer for her sins as well. I don’t think it’s fair to them either. I guess the damage is done as well and the past is the past. I won’t get nothing accomplished but I just want an acknowledgment from her part that she messed up.

• August 12, 2023