Difficult Circumstance Research Paper

Everyone always has a difficult time in their life at one point or another, some may be people may have ideal circumstances at the time, from your vantage point. But it doesn’t mean that it would be less difficult than your situation. It doesn’t matter where you come from, or what you go through, it’s how you deal with the obstacle that defines what kind of person you are and how you are going to get through life
I think the best way to describe the difficult circumstance in my life is to start off by explaining how my family dynamic works. My parents met in San Antonio, Texas. They were both alcoholics and drug addicts, and enabled each other. My mom already had three boys with a previous man, whom they lived with, and had my sister and I fifteen years later. My sister is two years older than me, so you’d think we would be close, but we’ve never been. My mom decided to sober up, while my dad continued the same path he’d been on for over a decade.
Soon he realized that my mom left him for Las Vegas, Nevada and he followed us. My mom decided that Vegas was not the most appropriate city to raise children in so she moved to St. George, Utah (The most southern city in the state) where she met my soon-to-be stepfather who convinced her to move to northern Utah. …show more content…
My mother is the subservient type, always trying to please her husband. As I grew older, my stepfather started to like me less and less, which escalated to tolerating me less and less to the point where when I was in seventh grade, she told me I needed to leave. I had nowhere to go, my dad didn’t sober up until I was in the ninth grade so at the point he was still the abusive, belligerent father I only saw once every six months. So I called my aunt in San Antonio, Texas who I had seen the summer before and asked if I could stay with her for a while. She readily agreed and took me in