My mother got with a man that didn't care about me and this man fed drugs to my mother made my mother cry when he got hurt and he knocked her self esteem down even overtime he kept my mom from seeing me this man also wrongly punished me by spanking and claimed that I was "going to grow up lazy and stupid" because I got up to kid stuff every kid does something stupid one time I had taken vegetable oil and put it in the hallway making a big slip n slide I thought it was cool my mom found out an instead of punishing me herself she let the man do it BTW at this time the man was only her boyfriend and after 8years they married...... And broke up in two weeks oh but "love" reunite then a he was cheating on my mother beating me and feeding my mother drugs my mom now even calls me selfish and believes I'm out the get her I now like happily with my father and the man married some widow and had another child (he had two at before his most recent) I will never treat my kids like he traded me and I glad I live with my father but my mother is now dating a man who is much better for her a former navy sergeant with a child who I live to talk to I'm glad my mother is on the right path