I have wanted to tell this story for a long time but I was scared.  It is a story about me and some of my family.  It's a story about lies and betrayal.  It's a story about destruction.

I met my 1st, Mike, husband at the pizza place we worked at.  It was located in a small town that had very little housing available.  He was one of many homeless in town due to the lack of housing.  He was working 2 jobs and couching hopping when we started dating.

I was living with my constantly bickering parents due to my mom's years of alcoholism.

Mike and I looked for a place for him to live.  I couldn't believe how little housing there was there.  We go see movies on Mondays because admission was half price.

He didn't get a long with his family similar to me.  I never saw him to drugs when we were dating.  He would have a drink sometimes but he was over 21.

My parents didn't like him because they thought he was a lowlife.   My dad didn't voice it nearly as much as my mom did.  She hated most of my boyfriends. She didn't like me to date because she thought I would get pregnant or something.  She did her usual thing of ranting and raving.  She would do things to make it difficult to go on dates.

Mike got a construction job and we moved into an apartment several month after we 1st started dating.  Things were good for awhile.  My mother passed away on 7-7-93 due to alcoholism.  Mike and I got married on 9-15-93.  Mike acted different after we married.  He seem irritable and more withdrawn.  Things improved in time.

One of his main problems was that he was careless with money.  When he got bored, many times he would go out and buy things on credit.  I would get angry about this and he didn't understand why.  When he lost a job, it would take him a long time to get another.  Some of this was because he would got fishing instead of looking for a job.

Moving right along, my sister-in-law, Beth, hated Mike.  My brother, Chris and her cooked up this plan to accuss him of molesting my neice.  5 yrs old at the time.  This would get him put in jail and away from me and out 6month old son, Eric.  Beth to me this on Christmas Eve.  She said it happend in our Nissan pick up on the way back to their place.  Eric and I rode back with my dad.  She said it was reported by accident when my brother came to the Blockbuster Video she worked at around closing time.  He came to tell Beth that my niece told hee dad about the molestation. They thought the store was empty except for them.  Turns out there was still 1 customer and it was Beth's former Dr.  The dr. overheard the conversation and was going to report it.

Christmas has been ruined for me forever.

We were living at my Dad's at the time.  Even he doubted Beth and Chris' story.  Mike's mom said their was no history of abuse with him.  The whole thing became a gigantic mess.  Mike went to jail for 3 months and was on probation.  We were never allowed to live together since we had Eric.  Eventually I divorced him.

This is why I know Beth and Chris lied.  She was the one that spearheaded the plan.  As I mentioned it happed in our P.U.  We drove q 1995 Nissan XE, manual trans. pu.  My dad was driving and antique car and didn't want dirty pumpkins in it.  My neice volunteered to ride with mike.  Mike didn't want the pumpkins rolling around the bed so he put them in the cab.  Eric's carseat base was in the cab.  Eric was in his carseat with me in Dad's car.  In the Nissan, there was very big pumpkin sitting on the base, some on the floor, 2 on my nieces lap and Mike was driving while drinking a soda.  He followed my dad, without pulling over, all the way to my brother's how.  Also, this is in the country.  It was night and they don't have a lot of lights in the country.  The route taken is extremely curvey.  How could he committ such a heinous act while driving stick shift, soda in the other hand, not pulling over, etc.

How could the D.A. and the judge not notice this?  This case should of been thrown out!  Why was our lives ruined!  This was a large part of why I had a nervious breakdown and became disabled.