Heart-Wrenching Letter from Son Whose Father Transitioned

by Them Before Us | Sep 26, 2023 | EXPORT, Stories

(Originally published on MadMommaBear Blog) From a Guest Author, a letter shared from a son to an absent father about the experience of losing a father: Hello, I am fine. Sorry I haven’t reached out to you in a while. I’m doing very well in school; I have a 4.0 GPA....

Peter’s story | “My rearing taught me false ideas of marriage…Now I live with the horror of what I did to people who didn’t deserve it.”

by Them Before Us | Aug 31, 2023 | EXPORT, Stories

In 1953, on the day after my third birthday, our parents divorced. That explosion scattered my brother, sister, and me to different states, towns, houses, schools, stepparents, and half-siblings for ten chaotic years. Our second stepmother brought us some stability...

Andrew’s story | “My mom came out as gay in 2017 and ended my parents’ marriage of 33 years…I felt like my whole existence was called into question.”

by Them Before Us | Jul 5, 2023 | Stories

My mom came out as gay in 2017 and ended my parents’ marriage of 33 years. She had been cheating on my dad with her mistress she met through a church group. I’m not sure how long their relationship had been like that, but we had known the other woman for...

Blake’s story | “Everything quickly became too much to handle and, at the age of twelve, I attempted to take my own life.”

by Them Before Us | Feb 8, 2023 | EXPORT, Stories

My name is Blake, and I am a victim of adults putting their desires before their responsibilities as parents. I was born into a middle-class family that I thought was secure. We had no financial need that we could not meet, my mother took a very active role in raising...

N. Smith’s story | “…the wound caused by missing actions on [my father’s] part is definitely still there in my adulthood.”

by Them Before Us | Jan 13, 2023 | EXPORT, Stories

I grew up in a single mother household. My parents divorced when I was six or seven years of age, my brother was three, and my sister was thirteen. When my parents divorced, we were living in California and my mom moved us to Michigan. My dad followed us, and they...

Hannah T.’s story | “I have sat on my grandma’s couch more than once crying, asking why my life turned out different than my siblings.”

by Them Before Us | Jan 16, 2022 | EXPORT, Stories

My parents divorced when I was 11 years old. There are 5 of us children and I’m in the middle. When I was young, my father was a preacher, and I became a born-again believer in the Lord Jesus Christ at the age of 6. During this part of our childhood our mom was a...