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“To start off, my family history is a little weird. My bio dad is in prison with a life sentence, and my bio mom has been running from the police for years, and is banned from the state I live in. I lived with my ex-stepmom for 13 years ( I’m 18) until I moved out a few months ago. My ex-stepmom was pretty abusive and emotionally and mentally neglectful. She stole my savings from me ( about $10,000) and she would kick me out when she wanted to. She never told me anything important. Like, when I was diagnosed with cancer (stage 3 melanoma, atypical) she lied to me and said that the doctors were wrong and just wanted money. I think one of the things that hurt the most (the big secret she kept from me) is about my grandma.”
“My bio grandma would send money and gifts and would take me out to dinner. One day, I was supposed to go to dinner with her, and I got dropped off to wait for her. She never showed up. That was eight years ago. I hadn’t heard anything from her, and no one told me the truth. I was told that she didn’t love me anymore. I had been looking at obituaries for an assignment in school, and found hers. I confronted my stepmom, and found out that she had overdosed on pills. That night she didn’t show up for dinner was the night she died. She left money for me and my sister, and we never got a single penny of it. She had been dead for eight years, and I had no idea. I really grew up thinking that I was unimportant and unlovable. I’m still hurt by it, but I have cut off contact with my entire family.”
—Anonymous
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