25yearsmlc, thank you for pointing out these things. believe it or not, I am well aware I do wrong as much as I do right. I do know I have a lot to do with the deterioration of the marriage.
My father was killed when I was one. My mom remarried when I was six. He left the first time when I was 10 and did so more times than I can count until he died at 47, 3 weeks before my wedding. Mom was an alcoholic until I was in my mid teens.
Mom was the half sister of eight kids. Her father was an alcoholic and a mean one. When I was young I remember stories of she'd tell of waking up with an axe to her neck, the story of her and a bunch of siblings sitting on the couch covered with gasoline while her father held a lit match. Finally, at age 12, she was shoulder to shoulder with her mother in the kitchen when her father unloaded several guns into her mother. A year later she witnessed her cousin that she was living with get run over my a logging truck. At 16 she was pregnant with me. At 17 her husband was killed in action.
Step father was never around much. He went blind when I was 10. He moved a to MA from ME. We followed a year later. We moved a bunch 'till I was 18.
