~Lauren

My relationship with my mother was basically non-existent, she shipped me off to Spain for high school and didn't even bother to attend either of my graduations.

I could say her dying should be a pass but was it really? Whenever I reached out to her she found new ways to shut me down.

When I heard she was married I thought he was the reason she never paid any attention to me but after seeing him with another woman yesterday I am beginning to rethink that thought.

“Stepdad.” The word rolls off my tongue smoothly, he was nothing like I expected. When I thought of a stepfather, I...