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It took me 1 week to realize when my friends are being abused but it took me 4 years to realize my step mom doesn't think of me as her real family?
Like how stupid could I be?
She told me for years,
"MY family!"
"MY nieces and nefews!"
And it just never occurred to me that she was directly telling me that it wasn't my family.
That I wasn't apart of this.
That I was just of my dads blood and nothing else.
4 years of fighting, mental break downs, screaming, doors slamming, for me to realize
This isn't normal.
That's..not okay.
That's low key isolation in a way.
That was 4 years of her either directly or indirectly making me wonder why I never fit in.
I have no idea what's going on.
But it wasn't until dad pointed out the flaw in her argument it dawned upon me.
That dad told my brother and sister and I that he would do anything to keep us together and stop this fighting.
It wasn't until I personally experienced unconditional love that
That kind of relationship wasn't normal.
Every day should be another fight.
Everyday shouldn't cause me indirect physical harm because I get so stressed out my mouth herpes break out EVEN WHEN IM ON MY MEDS.
Theresa..
This..
This isn't normal.
I don't know if this is abuse, manipulation, or just fighting and that's all.
But that's not normal.
That is not okay.
It doesn't matter how many problems I have.
It doesn't matter that I am 15.
I am YOUR child.
And a child should never go to bed dreading the next day or crying themselves to sleep.
A mother should never go to bed wondering of she did the right thing by kicking her husband out of the room.
A father should never wonder why he married that woman in the first place.
And siblings shouldn't wonder how long they can keep this bullshit up.
That's not a functional family. And it took me 4 years to figure out.
Now that I know this, what do I do?