Reiteration
It occurs to me that the previous post may not have made complete sense to outside readers. I'll fill in the blanks:
My mother moved in with a new husband a couple of years ago. My parents had already been separated a while, so there was little shock value in it. They knew each other from highschool, etc. He'd since become a preacher.
About a year into the marriage, she finds out that he has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic narcissist, but refuses treatment. He has these fits where he calls himself "the closest thing to God," being from the coventry (or whatever the hell they call themselves), and says hideous, spiteful things to my mother.
This weekend, she worked her hardest to make their house welcome to Lonnie's (the preacher) family. They were grateful, but after they left, he spent hours picking out details that could have been better.
On the fourth of July, he sleeps in, then gets up angry because it's "too late to do anything," and blames her. He leaves in a huff.
He angrily left her alone on a holiday after she busted her ass for his family.
This type of thing happens too often for me to stomach. The statement could be made that I'm only hearing this from one side of the story, and that it's biased. But it doesn't matter. She's my mom, and she's in pain. I'll do whatever I can to stop that.
My mother moved in with a new husband a couple of years ago. My parents had already been separated a while, so there was little shock value in it. They knew each other from highschool, etc. He'd since become a preacher.
About a year into the marriage, she finds out that he has been diagnosed as a schizophrenic narcissist, but refuses treatment. He has these fits where he calls himself "the closest thing to God," being from the coventry (or whatever the hell they call themselves), and says hideous, spiteful things to my mother.
This weekend, she worked her hardest to make their house welcome to Lonnie's (the preacher) family. They were grateful, but after they left, he spent hours picking out details that could have been better.
On the fourth of July, he sleeps in, then gets up angry because it's "too late to do anything," and blames her. He leaves in a huff.
He angrily left her alone on a holiday after she busted her ass for his family.
This type of thing happens too often for me to stomach. The statement could be made that I'm only hearing this from one side of the story, and that it's biased. But it doesn't matter. She's my mom, and she's in pain. I'll do whatever I can to stop that.