So I’ve been subscribed to this subreddit for months and it has been so crazy to see what gets posted here lining up with the people I know irl. I have quite a few personal experiences, thought I might summarize some of them here.

As a younger kid, my dad worked two jobs to support our family, while my mom was given the opportunity to stay home and watch the kids (there were 5 of us). However, practically every night she would leave my older sisters in charge of us younger three while she would go out to dinner with “friends”. As a young kid I didn’t think much of it, however, as I got older I found out what “friends” really meant. What really struck it home was on my younger brother’s birthday about seven or eight years back. My dad was at work (couldn’t get the day off) and me and my friend were wondering around the house when we realized we hadn’t seen her in a while, along with a male coworker of hers that had come over with his daughter. We went to her bedroom to go check on her but the door was locked. I remember at the time we joked that they were having sex. A while later she came out of her bedroom with her hair all messed up, which added to what was now our growing suspicions. Well, given some time it became very obvious she was pregnant and the fights began to break out between her and my dad. He had been working so many hours that apparently they hadn’t had sex in months, so he knew what was up. Well, him being the cuck he is, he offered to raise the kid after it was born, but of course she didn't want him anymore. She told him that she was happy for all that he'd given her, but she wanted to replace him with someone else. They go through a brutal divorce, the legal fights over custody and belongings lasting up until late 2016, but the consequences are going to last much longer. The divorce got settled with joint custody - after she had full custody for the first year following the divorce.

During that first year she convinced my two younger siblings my dad was evil and abusive - something they still believe to this day. They even went so far as to tell a divorce counselor that my dad pushed my mom down the stairs the last night she lived with him (the two siblings were asleep when the push "happened") and she got a restraining order on him out of it. After all this craziness she is still seen as great by those around her because they only listen to her. She's gotten with a new guy since then, he's pretty cool, but I know he doesn't know who she actually is. Meanwhile, my dad got remarried three-ish years back to a woman he'd only known for two months. The lady is evil! She is constantly nagging me over literally everything. This isn't me just being a stereotypical teenager either, my dad is a bit of a stickler himself (ex-marine) and I'm used to that sort of parenting, but this is a whole other level. Even friends who've only met her for a couple minutes have mentioned how bad she is. But this isn't the worst part about her. He's 55, going to be 56 this year and has poor health history. It is so obvious she's using him for his money. He bought her a new ford mustang to replace her old one, but instead of getting rid of it, she told him she wanted to start a mustang collection (we are not rich enough for a car collection - not even close). Now she's having him practically rebuild her falling-apart mustang while she drives around with her new car. When my car broke down a month ago due to engine failure I asked if I could use the old mustang or even buy it off of her but she refused to even let me sit in it as a passenger. But worst of all, she refuses to move in with my father after all this time married despite us living in Casa Grande and her living in Phoenix - which means she only drives down to see him maybe twice a week if at all. He doesn't know where she works, she refuses to give him any way to contact her besides her phone number, and he has never been allowed inside of her Phoenix home.

I honestly have no hope for my dad - he's a complete cuck. He hates how she treats him and it results in fights over the phone, but he refuses to leave her. I have hope though by going my own way. I started getting into this sub a few months ago and I liked the ideas enough to lurk because they really resonated with me. I mean it's bad enough that I could go on and on for who knows how long, even this post is an extremely shortened version of what's happened with my parents (granted the events occurred over years). Right now I've finally decided to go further into the community because of my girlfriend. She's the opposite of most of the women discussed on here, wherein she is extremely clingy. I mean we've only been dating for six months and we're in high school, and the other day she mentioned kids. Now she's talking about marriage and I'm just kind of going along with it, but I've known for a long time that I have no intention of marriage with anybody - especially someone I've dated for six months in high school. She hates me hanging out with friends and all it feels like she wants to do is have sex. I mean I'm all for sex, but god that's not all I want to do ffs. I would've broken up with her a while ago, but she has suicidal tendencies and is extremely attached. I know I'm going to do it, I'm just trying to find the right moment. I'm worried to do it while I'm still in school though because I don't know what she'll do. Besides, in only a month I'll be gone for college at UofA. It's so bad with her though that I really don't even want to date a single person for too long anymore, possibly not even date at all. Just sex is fine with me... I'll just have to watch out for rape accusations and shit from crazies.

tl;dr mom fucked other guy and got pregnant, dad is getting cucked by new wife, current girlfriend is crazy

Sorry the post is awful, I just kind of tried writing it all out at once but too much has happened so it all comes out kind of scatter-brained