Eulogy For Father

Now I don’t want to dive right in and tell you what happened right away, but first I want to give you a little background information. My parents divorced when I was ten years old and after that day my mother was never the same person again. I still love her with all of my heart but I desperately miss the mother she once was for me. I can still remember her and my father carrying me and my little brother up to bed and saying a prayer as they tucked us in for the night. That was so long ago and she is no longer that person.

I hate saying this, but my mother has become a selfish person compared to how she used to be. She started acting this way about a year or so after she started dating a man (who I will not name, but will instead call him Matt).

Matt seemed very lovable and full of life when my mother started dating him. Me and my three younger brothers loved him and his sons when we all first met.
Then about two years into the relationship we started noticing behavior changes in both our mother and Matt. They were no longer the happy couple they used to be. Instead they were on the verge of fighting at any given time, and it was never expected. They would go on like this for what seemed like ages, then we would come back home from our dad’s house one day and they’d seem lovable again and happy. My brothers were too young at the time to notice anything different when they were suddenly happy, but I did.
The love they showed us they had no longer seemed sincere to me. The number of fights I’d seen in just a matter of days made me have a slight fear for Matt. These fights only progressed over the years making my fear for him grow with every scream fest and broken lamp. I never thought things could get too much worse between them until they decided to buy a new house together. We had finally moved out of the cramped apartment we called home and moved into a log cabin sort of house in the woods. Little did we know at the time that this was possibly one of the worst decision they could have made. When we first moved in everything seemed like life was finally going to go in the right direction, and it was for about the first few months.