Me and my dad were so close he was like my best friend but when I was 15 I was hanging up a picture and my dad was behind me at first I didn't think anything about it but then he started slapping my butt everytime he saw me and again I was stupid so I didn't think anything about it. But there was a time when me and him went to Walmart and he literally grabbed my butt and told me he was obsessed with my butt every since I hung up the photo. And I also was a teenager so I wanted my own room so I asked if I could sleep in the garage cause it was that bad, he started going in there alot more I still was no comprehending I really don't know how probably cause I trusted him so much but then he would keep grabbing my bed anytime I stood up and I wanted to cry but kept quite then one night he would help me pop my back and the last he did it he grabbed my boobs which made me so uncomfortable but I still didn't say anything. And the next day he acted like nothing happened. And now he doesn't talk to me as much, I can't be in the same room as him alone and sometimes even if someone else is in the room. So I lost my best friend and dad. And none of my family knows about it I'm now 16 and he is still slapping my butt but I cant do anything about it cause he is the adult and I have to listen to him

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