so i have been avoiding writing about this topic as long as i could because i know it will bring tears to my eyes. considering i have already cried the past few hours
over this topic, i guess it's time to write. please keep in mind this is a very touchy subject for me and it became even touchier within the last two days. this will be the post about my father, from beginning to present. there will be blood, sweat, and tears that will be poured into this (okay not blood and sweat but
definitely tears). this will more than likely be a very, very long post and i really don't know if i'll finish this in one sitting. it's 6:43 in the evening so let's hope i can finish this all tonight so i don't have to keep thinking about all of the bullshit. let's get this over with.
past:
since i was little i have always known that my dad had anger issues, it was pretty apparent. but aside from his issues, he was as caring as a father could be, when he wasn't having an episode. i was a daddy's girl; i loved my dad. he was awesome in my eyes, he would protect me from whatever i needed to protected from. he bought me things that i wanted, took me places, etc.
he broke his back when i was very little but i remember it very well. he was gone for a while in the hospital because of all of the problems he had, the pain, everything. i remember so well the day he came to our apartment and gave me two gifts: a noah's ark toy set complete with a pair of every animal and a necklace. it was so excited. but my favorite gift was the second one, a necklace with a jewish star that had the word LOVE twisted into the star. it was beautiful. it meant so much to me because in all honesty he really thought that was the last time i would ever see him. i always think of that day when i look at my star because i realized i could have lost him. well as it turns out the back problem left him with a terrible addiction, an addiction to narcotics. for years and years he has struggled with being on and off of pain killers. he promised me when we moved out here he would stop, he never has. i really do feel that his anger is due to this addiction; when he has drugs he is a different man, he's the father that loves and cares. however, when he runs out by eating them like they're candy, he changes. he becomes depressed, full of angst, and it is pretty unbearable living with him.
this constant high then deep and dark low made life extremely hard. i remember the arguments pretty well. i've watched my beautiful mother cry so many times in my life. i comforted her as best i could but i knew she hurt. i remember kneeling on the floor next to my mom in my room watching her cry while my dad screamed. i remember her face when he took me and my brother away from her christmas eve. i remember so many things. but most of all, i remember the verbal and emotional abuse i endured. when i couldn't comprehend adding change, i was punished by having my barbies & toys taken away from me. when i messed up by the tiniest bit, i was punished for weeks on end. i look back and realize that i blocked out some of my life when i was younger because it hurt. i've cried millions of tears over him throughout my life.
as i grew up though i got kinda tired of it all. i went through a semi-rebellious phase by talking back and intentionally fighting with him. i would always go against him because at the time i thought it was fucking hilarious. my mom would kick me under the table as a signal to shut the fuck up, like now. but i kept on going, pushing harder and harder till he snapped. i don't know why i found it funny then because now it is the least bit funny. my parents almost split up about that same time and i prayed all the fucking time that they wouldn't get a divorce. i cried so hard because at that point in time i truly believed they belonged together. that's all fucking bullshit right there. they never split but i'm surprised they haven't to be honest. anyways, there are so many things i'm sure i could write about but it's a little hard because i don't remember all of it, just the parts that hurt the most. so let's move on to present.
present:
i think it started after we moved, when he became a little bit more bearable. the weather definitely changed his attitude. he was in less pain and was overall happy living in sunny california. two years passed with fights here and there, but nothing out of the ordinary other than the fact that he looks like a red hulk when he fights.
as i graduation approached he was constantly bragging about me, "my daughter is an honor student. my daughter has a 4.0 gpa. my daughter got into four universities. my daughter is going to be a doctor." he was so fucking set on me going to medical school that nothing else seemed okay to him, nothing else was as good as a doctor, nothing else made as much money. haha, money sure is the root to all fucking evil. well as i made my way through my first year of college i hardly saw him because i got stuck with nights classes 3 outta 5 days a week and i worked when i could. so my freshman year of college was fairly painless. occasionally we'd fight but nothing too big. i remember one big fight though but i don't know if it happened my freshman year or before that. but i remember standing outside the garage while he smoked a joint telling me he wished i woulda gone to new jersey for college. that fucking hurt. but like i said i don't know when that occured.
onto my sophomore year. i started talking to edward last september and we finally began dating in december. when i came back from new jersey this past january everything got incredibly messy. up until january everything was pretty normal. there have been about four or five huge arguments in which i feared for my life since then. he's never hit me but i'm terrified he will lose control one day. i don't remember the specifics but i know the day before valentine's day my dad hurt me emotionally; he had said something like, "fuck you i don't give a fuck about what you do" and "you could go fuck the whole town for all i care." nice father, eh? then in april when my mother went to guatemala to visit her mom, hell broke lose again. i was called a bitch by my very own father three times within the span of one day. he basically told me he was sick of me and he was going to ship me off to jersey where my grandparents could control me. i was honestly debating on going for a while already when he threatened to make sure i would not see edward while i lived there (he lives 30 minutes away from them).
that scared me more than anything. he was threatening to take away my support system. he was threatening to take away the one thing that mattered more to me than life itself. and it scared me because what was the point of moving three fucking thousand miles away if i couldn't have edward? well i applied anyway to a university in jersey that night. i was so heart broken, i felt so empty. when i told edward about everything he told me if i move there he will take care of me. as i was crying on the phone to my baby, my father came in and took away my phone. when all you have is a little piece of plastic and metal to keep in touch with the one person you love, it can get a little hard. it only lasted a few days but not having a phone kept me from calling my mom and letting her know i didn't have a phone so i wouldn't know when to pick her up from the train station. i got there too early and waited in the car for about an hour. on the way home i told her everything as i cried telling her i love her but i needed to leave and if i got into this school i was gone. she supported me but i knew it hurt her to even think of losing me (my mother has always taken my side which is kinda why they fight so much and she knows how fucking mental my dad is so it's not like she thought this would ever happen).
so as i waited to get in, i realized that i really didn't want to be the surgeon my father wanted me to be. within the last year i thought about it every time i failed a test, every time i heard the gpa minimum to get into medical school, every time i failed a science class. i was starting to see that this is not the life for me. i finally decided to tell my dad about my decision about not going to medical school and going to graduate school instead. these were the words he said to me (what i can remember):
"you don't know what you're fucking doing. you're fucking up your life. you're not a doctor unless you can prescribe pills. you will go to medical school whether you want to or not."
um yeah, thanks for the fucking support dad. it was a war that i had begun. i decided i would just lie about it and then tell him when i graduate. but this was a huge lie. i lie to my dad but not to my mom, but this was just too fucking big. and for a whole week i was depressed. i had an anxiety attack over this. because i was terrified of telling the truth and losing the tuition money my grandparents had given me. i was terrified he was going to make me drop out and go to the community college around the corner from house. i was terrified of losing everything i've worked so hard for. he finally mellowed out and told me he just wants me to be happy. for the first time in my life, he was understanding what i really wanted to do.
but after all of the ridiculous drama, after all of the tears and fights, i decided to keep my distance from him. we fight about everything so i figured if i wasn't near him we wouldn't fight. that has worked for me since june until about yesterday. about a week ago my dad asked my mom why i was so distant. she knew, she always knew. i've cried countless times to her because i really don't think my dad loves me. after seeing how he has treated me within the last year what other conclusion should i come to? well she opened pandora's box and i wish she never would have. she told him everything. at first i thought it would knock some sense into his thick skull but nope.
this next part is the last three days. he flipped out because i couldn't get off work to go to dinner for his birthday. what upset him the most is that i'm too prissy to spend time with him, blah, blah, blah. so he changed my curfew to 11 & said i could leave if i wanted to. i've spent a lot of time thinking about moving out but i can't afford it so i didn't leave. i thought all was said and done until today when he emotionally abused me once again. today i was blamed for my parents splitting up (he says they are going to), for being a brat since i was born, for arguing with him over everything, for being a bitch. everything is my fault. i don't know how it is though.
he has the nerve to sit there and say all these horrible things to my face. he blames everything on me. and he fucking wonders why i say that i think he doesn't love me. he tells me that i have no pride in my religion and doesn't give a fuck about my boyfriend because he's catholic because he would never let me date anyone who wasn't jewish that lived here. he tells me he can find pussy no problem and doesn't need my mom. he says that he thinks i'm stupid for being offended by him calling me a bitch (update as of 7:55 pm: he apologizes for calling me a bitch. but nothing else, hah). everything just burst through me. i was shaking, i was furious. because i honestly do not know what the fuck i did to deserve any of this. my heart has been broken by this man so times throughout my life. and i hate him for it.
future:
i don't know what i am going to do from here. when i told him i got into school over there he told me to go. i'm really not sure anymore though because i turned that school down. we'll see where time takes me. if they really split up, my parents that is, then i won't need to leave. but i do not need this kinda bullshit for the next 3 years. it's not fair to me. at all. i'm kinda distracted right now because edward is talking to me so i will end it all here. i'm sorry if i've left a lot out. you can ask me and i will answer whatever i can. there's just so much that i can't possibly write it all out, after all it's almost twenty years worth of memories. and sorry if i jump from one thing to another, that is kinda how my mind works. in time i'm sure i will write more, when stuff comes up. i'm a little to drained right now to bitch as he says. sigh, why me?
p.s. it's 8:35. i took a 20 minute break to eat dinner. you do the math.