THE DEVIL'S LOVER
Part 10's. The Tha Old One 2
Mom is 36 years old and she has 4 children with her husband who often leave her to sail and have many affairs with women. I thought if it was me, I wouldn't have had so much tolerance.
He saw me talking to him. Not once in the last years have I spoken so, sometimes not in a good way. I fought with him a lot at first, but I finally realized why he was so. She loves this family, but unfortunately life does not go too perfectly and she is devastated by her own expectations.
"You talk like you're an adult, and you understand how Mom feels, Carla."
"I've grown up because I often accept your anger, I also hope that Dad will change, I studied and became a class champion for you and probably hoped Dad would be proud of me and stop seeing those seductive beautiful women. But I've long since stopped wishing my dad would be Mom's normal dad, my friends say my dad's handsome. He doesn't know sometimes I don't expect Dad to be so handsome just want Dad to be there for us. I just want you to be happy, I've read happiness enough with ourselves, at first I didn't know what the word meant Mom, Mom, but I guess that means now is to stop making Dad the source of Mom's happiness, he'll just be the source of Mom's sadness forever, there we are the source of your happiness."
Mom hush. But this time I have to talk all my thoughts so I can change Mom's thinking.
"Mom in your youth you must have read too many happy ever after novels or handsome princes with white horses, you don't know the handsome prince that many are after you not only. Don't you know in the past the prince would be king, the king has many concubines and even some kings have hareem."
"Mom's guilty of you, Carla, but you know best what's in Mom's heart. Yes, sometimes it's excruciating. But for the sake of you having a complete family, Mom's fine with holding all this back."
"I don't need a complete family Mom, I think we're all used to being without Dad because Dad's gone a lot. We're just not used to seeing you sad. I want you to let go of your feelings. There's no point expecting someone to hurt you so many times Mom." She looked at me with teary eyes.
"Mom doesn't know where you got that understanding. But thank you for saying this. You understand everything the most. Mom loves you..."
Now he laughed but then he was silent. I know my words are heavy for him. I didn't expect him to answer me at the time.
I promise to be his happiness because it means that my life and my sisters are easier than having to listen to his anger and his crying. I just want her to stop crying because of Dad.
Finally three months after the conversation he decided to ask for a divorce when Dad returned. I knew from then on that his happiness was my responsibility.
Long story short at the age of 14, my mother became a single mother. Mom demands our house as our residence and becomes Mom's. And well Dad paid pretty big back then, and he also still has to pay our alimony. Mom takes care of her children without Dad present, she stops wishing on Dad. I see him happy.
At the age of 15 I entered high school and started receiving Foundation scholarships because I was enrolled as a child living with a single parent.
At age 21, six years later, I worked and began to be able to give my salary to Mom, the age of mom when it was only 43 years old she received it with teary eyes. Maybe in our part of the world there is no tradition of giving salary to parents, but since I asked him to divorce Dad and make us his happiness I want to give everything I can to be happiness for him.
Before long Dad's allowance was erratic coming and I who later became the backbone of the family and funded my brothers.
Now that I'm 35, my two younger sisters are 29, 28, a career in finance like me, one is a nurse like Mpm and one is the younger brother of a lawyer who is still 23 years old already close to completing his master's degree. Everything seems to be going well now.
Dad divorced again with his last wife and now at the age of 67 he is with his third wife. Maybe when he left he stopped.
So if you ask me if I believe a man like David Montgomery can change. The answer is you already know. I've seen a living example