Personal Narrative: My Father In Law

Essay 1 Over the past couple of months my father in law James has been battling drug addiction, but this wasn’t his first encounter with drugs. It started when he got married to my husband’s mother Diana, together they had two kids a daughter Jamie and my husband Dan. When the kids were in elementary both their parents began parting all night, drinking, doing drugs and stealing. This went on for a couple of years, it got to a point where their parents started exposing the kids to the stealing and drugs. There were times where James would send Dan out to steal packages off of people’s porches for him. It wasn’t till Dan was in middle school that his father got arrested for identity theft, beggarly and the manufacturing of drugs. He was sentenced to six years in …show more content…
In the meantime, the kids struggled emotional as their father was gone and their mother took off. When their Dad was released he was like a new man got a job, became hard working and got married for the second time. He had two more kids Lexi who is now 3, and Hunter who is 5. He was doing well as a recovering drug addict, so we thought. About two years ago the kid’s Grandmother was diagnosed with cancer, she fought hard battle but pasted in September of 2015. This was a heartbreaking, devastating time for the family and especially for James as he turned his direction back to the drugs and old life style. You never understand how much drug addiction can impact a family until it happens to your own. This addiction has stressed our family to the breaking point, from the aggressive behavior, the stealing, the children’s wellbeing, and our overall family dynamics, consequently something needs to be done to resolve