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70Forgive Thy Enemy But Don't Forget Their Name
I've been meaning to put this up for a while now but had to dig through some papers before I found these letters. Anna, "Dave"s mom, wrote me this letter in early Jan of this year (2011). I'm also including my response. This correspondence is...
1 comment66When He Stops Doing Drugs and His Conscience Comes Back
I remember 'Dave' telling me one of the reasons he did drugs was to make his head 'shut up'. I told him, "If you'd just stop doing the wrong things it wouldn't bother you so much." He said,"It's easier to just make it shut up with drugs." When I...
1 comment64Dj Deadbeat
Yesterday, I decided to ask "Dave" for child support, via text. I have been told I should document this so here is our conversation exactly as sent and received. Hopefully I can have T mobile print these since...
1 comment58When Mothers Go Too Far
We had a very nice 1st birthday party for Melodie :) At the end of it, I opened some mail for me that had gone to my mother's house. In the stack of it were 2 cards. The first was from Melodie's grandparents...
1 comment60The Difference Between Daddies and Fathers
Bother- (n) Short for "Biological Father"; Deadbeat dad; an uninvolved father, one who does the bare minimum to make himself feel better, ex: sends a card after long periods of no contact. Yesterday, my...
2 comments71True Love Found Me When I Stopped Looking for It
So there I was, 8 months pregnant... depressed, alone and very unsure of the future. I wrote songs to help pass the time I had to spend on bed rest and spent the rest of the time crying or staring out the...
4 comments67Melody or Melodie? Tattoo Regret
Dave was a DJ and I sing, so when we found out I was to have a girl, I suggested the name Melodie. It was musical, and not too common. He agreed on the name, but not the spelling. He wanted it to be spelled...
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69Pregnant and Alone
I had just found out a few weeks earlier that my boyfriend had been cheating on me. I broke it off and then, stupidly, took him back. He (we'll call him "Dave") swore he'd never to it again, he loved me, blah...
0 comments55Looking for Love (in all the wrong places)
I'm probably going to regret being so candid... With no father-figure I subconsciously looked for love and acceptance in all the wrong places. When I finally did find someone I started to fall for, I would...
3 comments52In the beginning
I know from experience that Child Abuse does not just affect the first generation. My mother was severely abused by my grandfather in every way imaginable. His sickness was passed to her and unleashed on me...
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