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I don't remember much from before they had a divorce but this had a huge impact on my childhood having separated parents has really hard on me. I was 5.

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while my dad got remarried multiple times, it wasn't as life changing as when my mom got remarried since I lived with her. She married a man called Steve who soon after the marriage became a complete asshole. He never hit me but I was often talked down to and my self esteem plummeted. He would yell at me over the smallest things. I was 10

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By lifting weights I was able to eventually get my confidence back but it wasn't right away, but it changed my life in a huge way because by the time I was a junior in high school I was the strongest kid in my high school. So I went from being picked on in middle school to someone no one would mess with. I was 15

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after 6 years of living with my step dad my mom and him got a divorce helping me escape him and the house I was so unhappy in. after this my life became much easier. I was 16

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after my mom got a divorce with Steve she officially came out as bi she found a new partner and became much happier. But some of the people I grew up with did not believe this was ok and I lost some people I thought were friends. but to be honest I'm glad my mom is out she is so much happier then she ever was before. I was 16/17.

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I ended up moving to Charleston South Carolina I meet a bunch of life long friends while there and it was the first city I lived in since I grew up in a small town in NC. I was 21.

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while living in Charleston I was working in food and bev as a cook and eventually started serving then went on to bartend. I loved bartending but it put me in a position where I was always around alcohol and drugs and I started drinking heavily and using cocaine regularly. I was 22.

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I was bartending when I met Brooke she worked at a restaurant near my bar and at first we didn't expect us to be as big of an impact in our life's as we had been. She has had a huge impact on me helping me drink less ad stop using drugs. I was 23 when we met.

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together Brooke and I moved here to Houston TX, we really wanted to get out of Charleston because it was hard to stay away from the party life style there. Brooke is from Houston and her parents lived here so we moved when I was 24.

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after being with Brooke for a while we decide we wanted to be together for the rest of our lives so I asked her to marry me and she said yes. I was 25, we haven't gotten married yet we are going to wait till she finishes school first.

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two thing that are common in my timeline are divorces and moving, I when through three divorces between my mom and dad growing up in total. I moved houses a lot when I was a kid and as a adult have live in three city's .

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through all the hardships I lived through as a kid I was able to come out as an adult happy and confident. what I learned growing up is that no matter how hard it seems to be now the end will always come and sunny days will be on the other side.

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for the future I hope I will never have to deal with getting a divorce. I love to see new places so moving again might be nice but I will probably stay in Texas, but I love my life.