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I Say No More Because: I have witnessed my stepfather abusing my mom multiple times. I looked up to that man like a father all the years that he was dating my mom; then the summer after I started college I lost all respect for him and hated his guts. This sad excuse of a man picked up a metal chair and beat my mom with it in front of me, my baby sister and her friend. After that he left for a while and I thought that she was done with him, and I was happy because we didn't need a person like that in our lives and around this time it was revealed to me that my dad had also beat my mom, so it just made me even happier that he was gone. But he came back, like a toxic disease that just wouldn't go away, he wormed his way back into our lives. I was so upset and still am to this very day. It was maybe a year and a half after that that while driving home from work with my mom she told me that he had asked her to marry him and asked what I thought. I tried so hard not to but I burst into tears; i was sad, upset, confused but most of all I was pissed. I couldn’t even fathom how she could even consider marrying him after that. She asked me what was wrong and i bawled to her. “He didn’t even apologize!” she started crying and said she wouldn’t marry him if it would upset me then asked me if I would be ok with her marrying him. The only thing that I could muster up the courage to tell her was that as long as it made her happy that I was ok with it (even though i wasn’t) Then the hardest thing that she would ask of me; my grandpa had just passed away three months prior to me graduating High School, she asked me to give her away. The whole time we were in that tiny little hitching post all I could think about was running out of the building and to anywhere but there. I even almost didn’t stand up for her but in the end i did. They fight all the time and there has been plenty more instances since they got married maybe even more than I know about. The thing about all of this? My mom has changed so much that I don’t even know who she is anymore. She has become so emotionally and sometimes physically abusive that all I wish is that I can go back in time and tell her not to go anywhere near this asshat. Now the worst part? She is still married to him and wishes she had never went through with it but says she wouldn’t be able to handle the stress of another divorce. And half the time she doesn’t even realize that she is being emotionally abusive and i’d bet money that if who she was before could see her now she wouldn’t believe that that’s the same person, she would be appalled at how she now takes everything out on me and my sisters. I Say No More because i don’t want to end up like this. I Say No More for those that can’t or won’t. I Say No More for those not strong enough to say it. Mj

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