Personal Narrative: A Career In Family Therapy

I grew up with three brothers and a single mother. The life we lived was not the average person’s life because my brothers and I have been put through so much at such a young age that we didn’t really register what was truly happening. By the time we would start to catch on to what was happening, we would already be on the move. That was pretty much our life, a life that was unstable. As we watched our mother get fired or let go job after job, it began to be a very hard life to live. I’ve lost how many times we have moved or got evicted from our home, but as our mother lost her job we began to pick up the bills she couldn’t pay for. Around the age ten, I remember getting my first job at a local motel in the town I lived in. All I had to do was clean the rooms like a housekeeper would. Any and all money made was given to my mother to go towards a one bedroom apartment that five of us in it.
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It got to the point where I had to start seeing a counselor for family therapy, and individual therapy. I knew I wasn’t the problem, and I was tired of being mistreated the way I was. Anything and everything I did I was constantly punished for it. The things I went through on a daily basis was absolutely brutal. By that time I knew I could not get out of the life I never wanted. There was no one else in my life I could talk to and get help because I began to shut my mouth and the very few friends I had in school didn’t know the life I lived. When I tried to escape, it was to hang out with my friends and their family and some days I hoped they would notice the things I went through, but I hid everything my mother did to me from everyone. I dressed so that no one could see the things that my mother did to me, and by that time my two older brothers had left the house to live with their biological dad because he got custody of