Sabrina Recuba

I remember my best friends were like, your family's so loving and happy and you guys do everything together.

I always wanted my sister's life.

She had the kids, she had the marriage, the good guy.

She loved being a wife and she loved being a mother.

My dad was wonderful.

I mean, I can't complain about him as a dad.

We went hunting together.

We went fishing together.

We had moved in there, me and my ex-husband, with my parents when my daughter was about nine months old.

And it was like all the time they were constantly arguing.

The breaking point was when they got really drunk one night and my dad grabbed her by the back of the hair and he whipped her into the wall.

It made a really loud thud and she couldn't breathe.

I was like, we can't stay here anymore.

This isn't healthy.

I tried talking to my mom and she was just like, well, everybody has like disagreements.

And like she downplayed, she never wanted to talk bad about our dad to us.

My mom told my sister that my mom didn't want to have sex with my dad one night, and my dad pulled a gun on my mother over this.

We were so concerned because he kept making comments that he was going to take his own life, that he couldn't deal with this.

How did you get rid of that mattress?

My mom loved that dog, and my dad got rid of him.