Oh, yeah...my parents...they're interesting....I really could have done without the damage they inflicted on me and my sisters and brother.

Let's start with my mom.....she wallows in her depression.  Loves it, in fact.  After Mom & Dad got divorced, she would tell me (keep in mind I was a kid...maybe about 9 or 10 years old) all the problems she and Dad had.  I didn't ever want to know about my Mom & Dad's sex life at that age.....omg....talk about scarred for life!  Not only that, but she tried to turn me into a friend rather than keep me her child.  I didn't ever want to know about her escapades she and her friend had drinking in the bars.....And who makes their 10 year old babysit 3 other kids?  My mom...that's who.  I understand her need to work 2 jobs to keep us fed and clothed, but c'mon, really, I had no choice but to grow up way too soon.....it was never a choice for me...it was forced upon me.  My mom still wallows in her depression.  Now she makes dumb choices for herself even dumber than the ones she made for the 4 of us kids when we were younger.

Then there's my dad.  He's a piece of work.  He spent more time on the phone argueing with my mom than actually talking to the 4 of us kids.  He would make promises to us about spending summers with him, and never follow through with them.  He'd promise the moon to us, and give us nothing.  Even paying child support for him was torture.  He'd whine about how $100 per month per kid was way too much money.....right....ok...so explain to me Dad, how you could allow your kids to live in poverty and on hand-me-downs from the neighbors?  And now that we're all adults, he's made this feeble attempt (with each of us individually) to "make amends" for the past.  Does he not know how he's managed to ruin our lives?  For example, he's bought me a junker car, and then many years later bought my baby sister a car (he bought mine off a junk yard for $150 but bought hers off a used car lot for much more), but never bothered to buy the 2 middle kids (who when we were kids, were his favorite ones because they looked like his side of the family) one.  He bought a mobile home for my brother that should have been condemned and expected him to live in it, fix it up, and provide him with a place to have affairs behind our step mother's back....very feeble.

I'm just glad that I'm way across the pond right now...I don't think my emotions could handle the mind games they both like to play......