Courtney Klein

I can't just, like...

I can't just say, figure it out and walk away.

So I feel like I truly believed like he was in the state that he was in because of me.

And so I kept on trying to fix his problems, trying to be a mediator between my mom and him.

It would be like, you know, my daughter's birthday and I would come to have a birthday party and it would be like, you guys going to be in the same place?

Like, are we going to be able to do this?

Because they weren't speaking to each other.

And looking back now, my mom was setting a boundary for herself.

She was like, I have to separate myself from you because this is not this isn't going well.

So she actually.

So my dad is my dad, but my brother has a different dad.

My mom had gotten pregnant when she was a senior in high school.

He never had anything to do with my brother.

My dad met my mom when she was pregnant.

So he's been there.

for my brother's entire life.

So if you ask my brother, my dad is his dad.

But she actually reconnected with my brother's biological dad and started dating him after she got a divorce from my dad.

And that was hard.

So in the midst of my dad just completely breaking down, my mom has moved my brother's biological dad into our family home.