Victoria – The impact of total abandonment by my biological father, and in part by my mother, has left me with emotional pain that still plays out today
My purpose in writing this is to explain some of the pain I have experienced by not having my mother and father raise me. I hope my story can be a cautionary tale for anyone considering sex outside of traditional marriage. In no way do I advocate for abortion. I am...
Maggie – I’ll never fully heal from having an absent father and being raised by a single mother
I grew up as an only child of a single mother, and as a young kid I never really questioned it. My father had been around briefly when I was born up until age 3. I saw him a few times a year after that, and then not at all from ages 5-11. It seemed so simple to me...![Corbin – Most of my youth [my mom] was a lesbian. My father decided that he has always been a woman](https://thembeforeus.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/pexels-photo-220444-1080x675.jpeg)
Corbin – Most of my youth [my mom] was a lesbian. My father decided that he has always been a woman
My parents were allegedly a common law marriage, but the state they lived in didn’t recognize common law marriage at the time, so far as I can tell. They were hippies, my father was a drunk and a junkie, my mother left him when I was 2 and my brother 4. My...