My Mom Divorced My Family

From the beginning of my life at one year old until present time my mom has been the one to raise me. She didn’t have much support moving to El Reno, Oklahoma, and the only person she could rely on was my uncle who worked at Tinker Air Force Base at the time. Her motivation to move away from Brownsville, Texas, where my whole extensive family was born and still lives, was to escape away from her ex-husband and my father. My father hasn’t been in the picture most of my life and to look at it from my mom’s point of view, it’s a good thing he wasn’t in any of our photos.

As I was a baby I didn’t remember a lot of things. To be quite honest the divorce of my mom and dad impacted by brother the most because at the time he was five years old and more aware of what was happening. The reason my mom divorced my dad was because he cheated on my mom and beat her whenever he needed to get his anger out. He was an alcoholic and smoked cigarettes; not that anything

He was like a stranger to me, who popped up at the most inconvenient time in my life. I didn’t like the situation I was put in and I didn’t like him. I could tell you everything that made me feel this way, but I only have two vivid memories to tell. One of them was when I a toddler. I was barely awake and remember stepping over the crib I was lying in and onto the bed right next to me. When I did this, I proceeded into the living room where I heard all the commotion before I saw it. All I witnessed was my step mom and father, he was yelling at her and she was quiet, and I don’t remember her saying anything to him. As time went on he got angrier and was trying to catch her, but she was shielding herself with a big office chair with rolling wheels. She had a scared look on her face and he looked mad as can be. This was probably the first time I had seen my father be abusive towards