Then there’s my mother; this scares me the most because I’m afraid of it working. She has explained to me how my dad keeps threatening to arrest her or take away her child custody, calling her names, and won’t stop arguing with her over the phone. Even now, she also keeps texting/calling me to ask if he’s drunk. I hate to view the situation as so one-sided, but her side makes it so hard not to. My dad has insulted her to my face, admitted to be arguing with her (but blaming her), plus my mom’s side is believable, and my dad has been drinking a little.

The last thing I want to do right now is take sides; I don’t even care about the trip or the passport anymore, at least not over this. I just don’t want my parents to keep fighting and dragging me into it by trying to make me hate the other, but it doesn’t even seem like they believe they are. My mom seems to just be telling my the truth, and I think that’s what my dad thinks he is too, because I’ve already told him how I felt. I don’t know what to tell either of them anymore. I want to help, but I also can’t take them constantly throwing each other under the bus right in front of me.