No worries! That is just the tip of the iceberg for the extremely fucked up childhood my siblings and I had. I’ve mostly made my peace with it, but my siblings still don’t talk to certain parents and I don’t blame them at all. We went through every kind of abuse a child can go through between my dad, mom, and step-dad. I just figured I’d share my experience since I just remembered it happened when I came across that meme.

I definitely get that feeling though. It is comforting to know that you weren’t alone in having had to deal with shitty adults as a child. I think it’s important for everyone to realize that some people should just never have kids regardless of what’s expected of people. My parents definitely should never have had children and I never will myself. I really think unless you are willing to sacrifice your time and freedom and dreams you shouldn’t have kids. Unfortunately, too many parents treat kids as extensions of themselves or accessories to their own life.

You’re right, the more I think about it something definitely could have happened had one of us scraped the money together for a flight. Another reason my mom might have been fine with it is that she was in high-school when she met my dad and he was 10 years older than her. She also let my sisters boyfriend move in when she was still in high-school and he was a lot older than her too so I could definitely see her letting me go. Like I said my parents were not good parents at all.

No it definitely got weird. At least in my case. We talked on the phone a lot and she asked me multiple times to fly out to California to meet her. She even ended up talking to my mom on the phone. I’ll just say my parents aren’t good parents or even good people, but whatever small amount of concern my mom had was gone after that. I was in middle school so there wasn’t any way I could have flown out to meet her so maybe that’s why my parents stopped caring. Regardless, the woman eventually lost interest. At the time I didn’t even realize how weird it was.

Me too, but in Diablo 2. Nothing sexual happened or anything. She lived in California and I lived much further north, but it’s kind of funny/scary that this is a common a occurrence with divorced women and underage boys.