When I was in 7grade, I’m going into 11 now, I was at a family party with my dads side of his family. My mom was in California visiting her sister so it was just my dad and my siblings, there’s 6 of us and half are adopted. People had been drinking but like most kids I know when my parents are drunk and when they aren’t, my dad wasn’t. I was in another room with my aunt and her newborn talking and the other kids and cousins were in the basement. My dad was in another room with his two brothers and dad. My family is democrats but my dads side is hard core republican.An argument broke out about trump, with my dad being the only one disagreeing, and his father stood up and placed his hands on my dads neck attempting to strangle him. Growing up my dad was abused by his father but not his brothers. After this happened they claimed my dad was drunk and antagonized him and that nothing was wrong with his actions bc he never did that stuff to my uncles. I haven’t seen my dads side in years and it weighs on me every day. It’s like losing someone without them dying I haven’t seen my grandparents, aunts uncles cousins etc in so long that it physically hurts to think about the situation even though I know that they were in the wrong .
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