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If you have been the one to experience lack of support from family members, then you will carry that with you throughout your years here on earth. I know that is a powerful statement, but it is very much true to the words. You will go around with an emptiness in your heart, searching for something which you will never find. It is called acceptance from your family. You search and long for somebody to love you and accept you for who you are, and it usually doesn't turn out that way.

I will give you a very true story on why I feel this way. I grew up in a family where my sister was the one who was adored by all the family. She was beautiful, had alot of friends, won prom queen, and finished her education. She had everything going for her as far as nice shape, looks to kill, high school sweetheart, and everybody focused on her. Somewhere in the middle of all of that was me. I wasn't as pretty as she was, didn't have the boyfriend like she had, and I was kind of like the maid around our house. My brother had his children when I turned age 5, so I became the babysitter, maid around the house, and basically didn't have a life like a child should have. I can remember my uncle saying to my mom, "she will never want children, she already has them at the age of 5."

Throughout my child hood, I searched for somebody to show me love and attention. I searched at the church I went to, and did find somebody to be like a mother figure to me. I began to feel different about myself. Low self-esteem came along, next at the age of 16 came the drinking alcohol, racing cars, and dressing really flashy. I felt if I dressed to look kind of like a flashy person, the attention would be all on me. I didn't understand that what I was wanting was and searching for was love of my family. I didn't realize that by dressing flashy, drinking, and doing wild things, I was searching for love in all the wrong places. It went a step beyond that the day I quit highschool. My mother didn't believe that our PE teacher was getting really out of hand with the way he would flirt with me. I can remember him calling me into the locker room, and not having alot of clothes on. It got to the point where another teacher started noticing it. Next came my big step, the use of my mother's nerve medication to get through the old school day. My mother didn't believe what I was saying went on, did go on. When I finally just quit school, in my Junior year, my mother said she knew I wouldn't finish school,

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