I always wanted my family to be like The Brady Bunch. Most teens these days don’t even know what The Brady Bunch is, but I do. They were my favorite television family. Others consider The Simpsons and the Griffins from Family Guy to be the ideal family figure, but I beg to differ.
When I was about five or six, I would watch reruns of The Brady Bunch because I wasn’t really interested in cartoons anymore. I could watch several episodes of that show and never grow tired of it. Now that I look back it, I don’t think I had a serious obsession over the show, but rather a serious obsession with the idea of having a family exactly like that. My family doesn’t consist of many siblings; I only have two sisters, a mother and a missing father.
I suppose…show more content… One day, my sister grew tired of all of it. She felt as if my mother didn’t care about her anymore since she cared more about her current boyfriend. My sister left.
Unfortunately, this made me the only child in the house. Of course I was the baby, my mother did favor me more than my other sisters, so she tried to make me stay with showering me with random gifts and toys due to the guilt she had for my sister for leaving me. Tania and I were super close. I actually refer to her as my real guardian more than my mother because she has done so much for me in the upcoming years.
In my junior year of high school, I too, decided to leave my mother. She is still with her boyfriend that she continues side with all the time. He took over everything. He took over my house that I thought was safe in, he stole my mother away from me and he almost took over my life. He began to do what he pleased. He sold drugs on the side, he was in a gang, he carried a loaded gun in the house, he let strangers in, and tried touching me, he called me names, he tried to belittle me with his harsh, rude comments, and he domestically abused me
