The Star (Jamaica)

My mom is wrecking my life

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Dear Pastor, I am a 16-year-old who is having problems with my parents. I was in Jamaica living with my mom, twin sisters and uncle. My mother and my father separated and she met another Jamaican man who had migrated to the United Kingdom. Their relationsh­ip continued to succeed until my stepfather decided to take my mom there. He took me too, since I’m the youngest of all my siblings. The first week I came to the UK was absolutely fine until my mother found out that my stepfather was supporting his 20-year-old child. She said that the child didn’t care for his dad until he heard that he was married. He pretended that he loved his father again and got money from him to support his mom. I’m attending school here in the UK and I am doing quite well. The teachers love me a lot. My stepfather said to me he would have walked out of the relationsh­ip with my mother already, but he brought me to the UK and he wants me to get an education so I couldn’t say he brought me to the country and spoiled my future. My mother is so easily jealous that she quarrels every single night with my stepfather about women or his son. It is affecting me. I can’t do my homework in peace and if I tell her that she is distractin­g me, she starts on me by saying I’m picking up for my stepfather or she is wondering whether I’m in an intimate relationsh­ip with him.

Every day I go to school I cry, especially when I am on my way home, knowing the kind of home I’m coming back into.

I worry a lot but I don’t want to go back to Jamaica until I achieve my goal because Jamaica is hard and we were suffering there.

Sometimes I’m even thinking of walking out on the road and letting a vehicle hit me. I don’t know what else to do. Please, give me some advice.

K.H.

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