I’m Not Really a Psycho…ok…maybe I am. July 12 2007
Today started out fabulously.
Chris is speaking to me again, but not his father (so that makes me right, right?)
We have not heard from HIM yet, though I suspect we won’t.
To be honest I don’t care. He has cause so much turmoil in Chris’s life you don’t even want to know.
Not to mention the unforgivable things he’s done to me for crying out loud.
Not to mention the fact that he got drunk in Florida a few years ago and called his woman’s grown daughter a whore to her very own head.
Not to mention that shortly after his wife (Chris’s mother) died expectantly from meningitis, he came to take Brendan for an afternoon (he was alway a evening drinker at this point) and brought him home in time to stay for dinner, he was so drunk however that he couldn’t drive himself home, even though he had driven Brendan to our house.
He gave us their very old but in very good condition (out of self pity because *SOB* he just couldn’t STAND to be there without his wife that he beat for 35 years) and we happily excepted. 6 months later he sold to his brother for almost nothing including ALL OF OUR STUFF that was in it, brendan’s climber and all. And then when we went to claim our possessions he had chris arrested.
And then a year later when the charges were dropped and he had to show up in court, he couldn’t remember what it was all about.
Such a moron.
I mean really. A moron.
Screw the big pink elephant, it’s not my issue. It’s his and now he’s dead to me.
Family is hard sometimes. So hard. Best luck navigating it all.
He is totally a sour kraut
You totally did the right thing, Pam. Stand your ground. A drunk cares about one thing: himself. Driving drunk endangers the lives of everyone around him, and if your babies are in his car, he will kill them eventually. And he will go on living his drunk life, and your children will be gone.
A drunk deserves NO respect from anyone. It is HIS choice to drink, it is HIS choice to NOT get help. And NOBODY should feel guilty for letting him know his behavior is unacceptable.
You don’t want your kids thinking you condone that behavior. They look to you and Chris to know if the drunk is right or if you are right. You are right, and drunk is POISON to any family.
Protect your family, Pam. Be strong.
What a jerk.