![]() My mother was involved in many church and college organizations. #Mommy issues full#As a single parent, she worked and went to school full time while my brother and I took care of the house in the 3rd and 4th grades. Sometimes they were because my mother was trying to better herself, like when we moved to Washington state so she could go to nursing school. Our moves weren't always to avoid my father though. He found us once in Portland, OR and we ended up moving. I didn't realize it until decades later, but many moves were to keep one step ahead of my father who was stalking my mother. We were always moving from one place to another and one state to another. These nightmares continued for seven years. He had a butcher knife and was about to stab me before I woke up and ran to my mother's room. By the time I was seven years old, I began having nightmares of my father coming into my room through my window. The only harm he did towards me was hit my mother with a chair while she was pregnant with me, leaving me paralyzed on one side of my face and my left and right side of my body completely off-centered from each other.Īlthough I have no memory of life with my father, as my parents divorced when I was three years old, I did have the unfortunate privilege of reliving these events through stories my mother shared over and over again. Both my older brother and my mother were the victims of abuse by my father. My mother told me as a young child how she regretted her pregnancy with me because it meant that she was stuck in an abusive marriage for another three years. These were not my experiences, but despite that I was loved. A mother should be equated with the words safety and trust. The relationship should be a loving and nurturing one. ![]()
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