by chroniclesoflife

Created on: June 19, 2009   Last Updated: June 21, 2009

When I saw this topic, I just knew it was meant for me. I guess I should start from the beginning so as not to confuse you. My aunt, who at birth was given up for adoption,decided to look for her birth mother and found her when my mother was twenty-one years old. To my mother this was good news, as she had grown up with three brothers. As time went on, my aunt convinced my single mother that the best thing for her would be to move away from all her family and come live near her.

So my mother, thinking of her children, thought this would be a fresh start. So we made the move from Georgia to Massachusetts. My brother was around one or two, and I was around six. I missed my grandparents and my uncles. You see my aunt is older than my mother by a few years. It seemed like she had some kind of hold on my mother. She always was telling my mother what to do and how to do it. It wasn't just my mother, she was like this with her own husband and kids also. After about five years my mother had finally had enough. She had a huge fight with my aunt and decided she was not going to have any contact with her at all. Now for me, this was a little difficult because I had three cousins that I had formed a bond with and loved. Well my aunt didn't take to this well.

She became very vindictive and started spreading rumors about my mother. We lived in a small apartment complex. She made life for my mother a living hell. We had no choice but to move back to Georgia. So that's just what we did. For years we heard nothing from her and life was fine. Then one day my mother got a phone call from her. She had moved her family to Iowa,and made a fresh start. She wanted to apologize for the past, and move on. She said they were both young and that they had had time to grow up. She wanted to be back in my mothers life. So after more phone calls and letters they became close again. She convinced my mother that life for her in Georgia was bad, and that if she moved to Iowa she would find all these new things. Again it was like she had this power over my mother.

I don't know why my mother believed that life was so bad just because my aunt said so. So my mother moved us again. I know she had good intentions. She thought she was doing what was right and making a new and better life for me and my brother. Once we moved and got settled in, things got off to a good start. It seemed as though for once things might be okay. But it didn't take long for my aunts true colors to shine through.

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