427: What if you were the other woman? [Rebroadcast #316]
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What if you were the other woman?
I thought like of all the cruel things for the universe to do, why? Like why on earth would the universe do this and what is this supposed to teach me? Like what does it mean? I d I don't I don't know what it means.
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My mom had me when she was twenty years old. She was not married. At the time, she was still living with her parents, my grandparents. I never met my father. My mother said that he had a bad temper. She did not let him see me or his family see me. My grandfather definitely took the place of my father. I saw him as my father because he was as engaged as any father would be. My mother, because she was young when she had me, we stayed with my grandfather and my grandmother until I was about five years old. And then we moved out of their house and into a smaller house with a bunch of twenty-five-year-old seventies, eighties drinkers and pot smokers, loose and on my own in this chaotic house. On the weekends, I would still go back to my grandparents' house.
I would describe them as kind, loving people who really seem to adore me. Um, which was a bit of a contrast from my upbringing in the house with my mom. The house was quite dilapidated because she wasn't making a lot of money. We didn't have a working stove. The shower tiles were all broken down. When it rained, it rained in my room 'cause the roof was leaking. And then my grandmother was diagnosed with a disease that was basically a spinal degeneration. So over time she lost use really of her entire body until she unfortunately became, for lack of a better term, a vegetable for about twenty years until she passed away. It was sad to watch somebody that I loved and counted on so much die in in that way.
Because it was a very progressive, long, uh slow, slow death. I was what you would call a latch key kid for the most part. My mom wasn't there when I got home from school. It was my normal. I didn't know better and I didn't know how much it was impacting me back then because it was my normal.
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