-Born into a stable family in RI. Mom and dad divorce when I'm 1
-Dad bolts and we are homeless.
-Mom marries a sociopathic pharmacist who controls her by keeping her drugged. They divorce when she realizes this.
-Dad returns.
-Mom meets Pete the barroom brawler. Dad bolts again
-Pete the barroom brawler beats the piss out of me and my brother for the next ten years. It's all good though because Pete keeps us out of poverty. I'm so glad mom kept him around.
-Dad returns then dies of cancer a year later
-I attempt suicide after years of bullying at home and at school.
-I meet my first love. She cheats (1)
-Petes gone. We're back into poverty.
-I meet a pregnant skank...ask her to marry me. She cheats and the wedding's off. (2)
-I drift around alone and broke for the next 2 years.
-Meet my third love, a control freak bitch. That lasts for 5 years
-Finally put my life back together, quit smoking, and started working out. Discover steroids and for the first time in my life I have confidence.
-Meet and move in with scam artist bitch who drains my bank account to pay for her townhome. Back into poverty again.
-Attend college, get my EMT certification, start working on me. Life is actually good.
-Meet the ex wife, move to PA
-Son's born
-She cheats (3) ending the marriage.
-Currently reside in the middle of nowhere. Back into poverty
-Discover DS while in exile.

Poverty and dysfunctional relationships seem to be the common denominator here. I take full accountability for that.

Was born, was hoping, grew up, stopped hoping, got older, started hoping again.

yeah, makes you remember all you've been through... not sure if that's good though

why do I keep getting broken link errors? something wrong with DS or me?

Yeh, I started to write out my list and I wasn't feeling so good with things that have happened that were unneccessary, unwarranted and not what a child, young adult and adult should have to go through just to live a peaceful, happy life.

Chi - I do understand. That's why I used "Mommy Dearest" instead of saying my mother would beat me with a coat hanger -bad memories. I forgot to add about being molested by my cousin - he is now dead, lucky for him.

Lynne

I started to write a whole list of my life.... found it sad, deleted it.... and I am still sad. Thanks allot Rman, way to go...

Hugging Dale....

Lynne

I find it depressing.... No, we are still young enough, damn! Ask adain in 50 years, sad man.

I know the coat hanger well, Lynne.

Thanks for saying so..

*bear hug* for u

Born in the ghetto
Mom pregnant by another man
Dad needs mom for his four kids
their mother shot and killed by her daughter
Marries mom, baby given up to grand parents
they have me
one brother three sisters same dad
one brother same mom
at nine dad dies everyone gone
I am alone with abusive mother
She remarries
three years of drinking and fighting
14 I leave to live in a Monastery
16 priest hood not for me
Academically gifted, whose genes?
married and divorced by 22, one child
alcohol and drugs are the answer, 19
clean up act, graduate from college, 27
Marry again 29, two kids, divorce 37
Up the corporate ladder, but back to drugs, fired after 11 years
One year in prison
39 meet Teresa, 23 years together
Have a son at 46
Social security disability 47
Raised my son at home
Asked to leave at 59
One year live in a room with attorney friend
The last year living with a woman
Celibate, brother sister thing
Job working with addicts part time
Looking to Love again
Details of the above made for TV Movie

born in Holland (navy brat)
1st love cheated, broke my heart
met and married 1st husband w/in 8 months
4 kiddos in 4 years
lost 4th kiddo shortly after birth
really needed to understand the WHYs
went to college
grief, changing through education, approaching 30's realized that 1st hubby and I were not great together
tried to talk him into counseling it was a no-go until a week before I left before he understood it wasn't just a phase in the marriage, but it was too late for me (after a year of asking for counseling)
divorce
met and married 2nd husband w/in 8 months (ughh should have learned)
abused and confused
back to school for teaching license
child #5 (4th living) his only
infidelity on his part
finished school and am working as a sub until full placement
Here I am a YEAR later, still getting divorced, and not willing to rush into anything ever again lol

Too cool thread. Cant wait to read and contribute when I have more time. :)

born near Chicago
oldest of 5 kids
emotionally abusive parents, angry father
moved near St. Louis
moved near Dallas
graduated HS
moved out at 17 a day later
moved in with friend
moved to Austin, moved in with bf
moved back in with parents
moved in with new bf, family moved away
finally got a place to myself
next bf moved in with me
i married him
no kids
stopped having sex
found out he liked to have inappropriate conversations with other women
found out he was a cross dresser
tried to make the marriage work
found DS for anxiety
found BU/D
realized marriage was never going to work
filed for divorce
divorce is pending

yeah, I did some other stuff in there, but those are the highlights

Born in a small town Colorado
Kinda scared of dad, he didn't have much patience with me
Couple of sisters came along...dad was calmer with them
I find out I'm a momma's girl
Think everything is great
Dad leaves for a new family when I'm 12
Mom has to go to work
I stay home nights with my 9 year old sister
Grandma takes care of my 4 year old sister
Have some good friends, but not popular
Mom gets remarried
Spend my Junior and Senior years in Grand Junction, CO
Mom divorces step-dad...who was very controlling
I move back to small town to live with grandma..she's lonely
Get pg at 22..have an abortion...I regret...
14 year old sister is a "wild child" and has a baby
I practically raise that little girl for 3 years and love her immensely
Sister decides to try to act like a parent and takes her and leaves
Breaks my heart
"Find" Dave...have known each other since Kindergarten, but never hung out
Am happy, get married, move to Wyoming where he is stationed
Have our first son there, move back to small town
Have two more boys
Happy to be around family
Grandma dies of Alzheimer's in 1999
Mother-in-law dies of cancer in 2000
My dad dies of cancer in 2001
We just live and be happy
Daves' dad gets sick,..take care of him for a year and a half
He dies in August 2008 and everything starts to go downhill
Dave meets Gracie on-line in February 2009 and so it begins
Dave moves out in August 2009 (same month we both turn 40)
I go thru 6 months of hell
February 2010, says he wants his family back, he loves me, he's sorry
May 2010 find an e-mail he sent her in April saying he misses her
He's sorry again
June 2010..gets mad at me and starts things back up with her
So here I am now. OH one bright spot...mom and Duke got married in December 2009 after almost 13 years together!:)