Someone to You

It was all so much. SO MUCH. There is no playbook for this. Looking back, I am not sure how I functioned day to day. I know I was emotionless, except for anger. I just kept putting one foot in front of the other. I know friends and family helped. It reminds me of when the twins were babies and people would say, “I don’t know how you do it!” I would reply, “I don’t have any choice.” Remember there were basically 3 court cases/legal issues running concurrently at this point. I addressed the first in my last post. I wanted John to be charged with a crime, but there was no law in our state to allow this. Our area is one of the darkest places in the world- backwards thinking, lack of cultural sensitivity, and all the patriarchal belief systems. In John’s case, the white middle-age, middle-class man had gotten away with a crime and had no consequences. Not yet anyways. As for Adam (Case #2), he was getting adjusted to his facility and new therapist. We had weekly Skype calls to compl...