Gold Digger Diaries - A Telenovela

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Might be a little long, I'm sorry. Please bare with me and forgive my oversharing. I really need someone to see that this is all real bc it absolutely sounds made up 😅

Going on 8 years now, Could use some other people around who can relate. Please enjoy the absolute chaos provided by my dumpster fire of a family 🍿 🍿 🍿

For background: My parents met in AA (🚩🚩🚩) My dad was married with a six year old son. He and his wife took in my mother thinking she was a damsel is distress. Only for my mom to have an affair with my dad in the home they shared with his wife and child.

My dad ended up celebrating his divorce by making it official with his pregnant mistress. His ex wife fled the country with their son. My parents went on to have my older brother but they were only together for 2 years. They split up over DV (ON BOTH SIDES)

Fast forward six years - my parents randomly hooked up once after my grandfather passed away. Hence my creation 🙃 Also fun fact that my mom was 47 when she had me. Actual proof some people are truly never ready to be parents.

My mom went on to become a DV counselor at a women's safe house for several years. She stopped working early on and financially relied on my dad and state supplements. My dad ended up inheriting some money in my teen. My momhad primary custody of me until I went on to spend 12-17 in treatment.

Afterwards I finally moved in with my dad for the first time but he ended up getting diagnosed with bone cancer shortly after. I really tried to rebuild our relationship and make up for lost time. My dad came

Towards the end of his lengthy sickness, he started disappearing and randomly spending a lot of time with my mom. Without any mention one day he just stopped coming home. Just like that my parents were back together after 26 years. Without a single word about it or conversation with me or my brother.

My dad spent all of the rest of the time he had left with my mom. Our last holidays weren't spent together. He spent them taking my mom on ridiculous vacations. He started giving her a regular allowance and buying her lot's of things. Before we knew it, his will changed too.

My dad didn't have much but he ended up leaving everything to her, including the house that has been in our family for almost 30 years.

When push came to shove, she didn't lift a finger to help take care of that man, from basic caregiving to funeral planning. However she wasted absolutely no time playing the part of a grieving widow. After 26 years of playing the battered woman and using him for financial gain.

After my dad died - so did any relationship I had with my mother. I went no contact at 20. She withheld all my childhood belongings and it took me two years to get a portion of my dad's ashes. But hey, she ran one hell of a smear campaign and we enjoyed one more false police report together.

It's been such rollercoaster a rollercoaster but God do I cherish my peace and the life I've built for myself.