So my aunt had moved to our house. When I was around 7 years old. One day my mom, my sister and I came home from grocery shopping before I could make it inside my mom was crying and said go outside play with your sister. We left cause we hadn’t played. It was night time so we came back. My aunt and my dad weren’t there. I had a feeling that something was wrong. We moved houses. Me and my sister would go visit my dad because he had a “new job” that’s why he wasn’t home. Months later he came back to visit us but got into an argument with my great great grandmother. She said “I never want to see you again especially after you slept with your wife’s sister “ . My little sister wasn’t there when this happened. She thinks my cousin is our cousin when in reality he is our stepbrother. He doesn’t even know. My aunt moved far and my parents are back together. I’m 23 now with two more siblings that my parents have had throughout the years. But it’s killing me that my other sister doesn’t know. And my mom gosh how can she get back with someone that slept with her sister. And to top it off I had a boyfriend and my sister has been sleeping with him behind my back. It’s like life it’s repeating itself again with me. I don’t talk to him nor her and no one knows why I left him and no one knows I have a stepbrother.

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