Things I remember

There are a few things I remember about my mother when I was young. My parents separated when I was pretty young, I don't even recall how old I was. For some reason they separated but shortly after they got back together and then later divorced. My dad has epilepsy, he's had it since he was a toddler but kind of grew out of it as he got older. When he first met my mom back in the day he didn't have seizures and seemed to be perfectly fine. One day they just came back and ever since then he's always had them. The stress of having to take care of him and be a mother at the same time seemed to be a little to much for my mom to cope with and she then started to have affairs on my dad. I can remember a time when she took my two older sisters, Brandy & Belinda who were about 12 and 13 at the time to the mall... they left late and I remember it was late because my little sister, Michaela and I were in our PJ's and watching the news with our dad while they got ready... funny thing even as a 6 year old I remember it being odd that my mother was leaving so late to the mall -side note- my dad hates fighting. He would rather just deal with something rather than bring it up to you. He also didn't believe in fighting with his spouse. He truly loved my mom and even though he knew first off that the mall was closed and that she really wasn't going to the mall he never confronted her about it and if he did we were never around to hear about it. So that being said he just let her leave and put us to bed and off to bed he went as well. This continued to happen here and there and still nothing was really said about the subject but one day a guy that I had never seen before came to the door. His name was Mike. No one knew him except my mother and of course my mother knew him. She started to freak out at this Mike guy while trying at the same time to answer some of my dad's questions. Turns out Mike is someone my mom was having an affair with... This was her second affair. The first was Mark- Remember my parents separated because of my dad's epilepsy. She started seeing Mark. He knew about my dad my dad knew about him and things were all out in the open. They dated for about 6 months until Mark died. Turned out Mark also had epilepsy but choose not to ever tell my mom that for fear she wouldn't want him either. My mom felt that was a sign from God that she needed to go back to her husband and be with him "in sickness and in health" that's when they got back together... Back to Mike. She obviously couldn't just stick to the marital vows she promised and met Mike started a fling and it all came out. So anyways, when my mom finally got Mike to leave the apartment and of course told him it was over she came back inside and my dad told her he was done and that he wanted a divorce and so they did. I was very upset with my mother. She had hurt my dad and my family more than she knew.