Hi freewill:
Be glad that's all your dream was........a " dream"!!!! For me it was all very REAL!!! After I left my first husband, and we were officially divorced from each other, I had full custody of my year plus old baby. I had lived with my mom and step parent for the term of his overseas tour. Well, one weekend we went to San Diego from Arizona to see my sister and my mother got very mad at me cause my best friends mom came and saw me. That was the real clincher.
I believe it to be, anyway. I wanted to stay behind and go to one of my alumni's football games and then fly home. Well,
my mom wasn't happy and my stepdad was never very happy to me. When I returned home I bought my moms' birthday present with me. It was Johnny Mathis greatest hits album. When he walked into the room, he grabbed it from her hand and commensed to breaking it in two and threw it at her and said...: " there" !!!! I made the remark that
she better leave him before he kills her. She looked at me
and said it was "me", and that I would have to go. THAT NIGHT. No car, no money, and a baby in my arms. She managed to get me a flight out and I left and never went back. It just so happens that I had a boyfriend overseas who was supporting me at the time. I was able to get us an apt. and settled in before he came home.
When he did, he wanted to go to Arizona and beat the hell
out of my stepfather. I should have let him. I wished I had!!
So you see, for me that still lingers. My own mother tossing me on the streets with a year old baby. Yeah! if that's mother love, I don't want anymore!!!!/??????????
It still bites me in the butt to think about it..........I would never
do that to one of my own........especially if the father was a step dad. That just wouldn't happen with me. Years later my mother told me she regretted letting him do that. They were living on the money "she" earned, not his. He was retired military. I paid room and board and got food stamps
for them. I need to quit now. This is triggering me and it's not worth it anymore. Sorry.