so this is when I was about 6 or 7 I was living with my dad and stepmom and my dad had a fight with my step mom and when they have fights he likes to have me in the room sleeping I didn't think it was weird because this was his way of showing he loves me and one night I woke up he was asleep I needed to use the restroom but instead I went back to sleep I woke up in the morning and his arm was around me I tried moving it trying not to wake him up because he was really tired and had a hangover like always but then he was almost awake and so I just layed there and I felt his arm move down I didn't think anything I thought he was maybe just trying to scratch his leg or sum but then I felt his hand in my pants he started touching me he stopped but then later on he woke up made food and my step mom was yelling because I slept in the room he then said "oh you slept in the room?" I got scared he would hit me and quickly said no I regret not telling anyone and now I'm older and still scared of 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