Alcoholic Mother
My mom has been an alcoholic since I was twelve years old. She stopped being home at night and when she was she'd beat me because "you deserve to know what it felt like for your brother to be beaten by your father". When my brother and I were kids, my dad drank a lot and would chase my brother up the stairs and beat the living hell out of him. He was really young and I would jump on my father's back, punching him in the back of the head to get him to stop. My father never touched me. Only my mother and brother. After my mom devorced him when I was in third grade, she started dating Jeff, my now step dad. After a couple years she started drinking hard alcohol, leaving my brother and I to fend for ourselfs. I took care of my brother. I cooked his meals, did his laundry, picked him up from the bus stop, always made sure he was up for school. I was always there for him. Ever since my parent's divorce, my mom has favored my brother. When I was younger, it didn't bother me. She had her times that she was a good parent but they are rare. She gives my brother everything he could ever wish for. My mom screwed up my life, bad. If it weren't for my friends, I'd probably be in prison right now. My mom claims she's a good mom now. But she doesn't even want to go to my brother's basketball games because they are too long and will cut into her drinking time. It's sad. But I've delt with it for so long that I'm used to it, but I will NEVER in a million years let my children witness what I had to and go through what I did. When I have children, my mother is not allowed to be any where near them until she has quit drinking for good. She can have all the pictures she wants, know everything about them but she will never be apart of their lifes until the drinking comes to an end. My kids will not be around that. She is what I call, a waste of life.