by Them Before Us | Nov 2, 2023 | Stories |
I had a different childhood as my father was 41 and my mom 18. After they were married for 10 years my mother started seeing a woman behind my dad’s back. One weekend, me, this woman, an old family friend a few years older than me who was visiting from the UK,...
by Them Before Us | Oct 17, 2023 | Stories
I was a donor-conceived (IVF) child and a twin born in 1995. My mother desperately wanted to have children but with no prospect of a traditional family. She lived in central California in the 90’s and was near a larger IVF facility. She proceeded to try multiple...
by Them Before Us | Aug 31, 2023 | 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...
by Them Before Us | Feb 8, 2023 | 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 – …the wound caused by missing actions on [my father’s] part is definitely still there in my adulthood](https://thembeforeus.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/andrew-neel-f480QIEvwGI-unsplash-1080x675.jpg)
by Them Before Us | Jan 13, 2023 | 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...
