Jack Peterson
Stories (1/0)
'You're Fine'
As a child, I grew up in a suburban town north of Atlanta. This town was affluent, high achieving, and expected a lot from the people that lived there. It was always a constant struggle to always be the best and have to constantly compete with everyone else. Showing vulnerability and weakness was not something that was widely accepted, especially when judgement was always being passed around. As a child, many concerns of mine were overlooked until I had made them so adamant to take them upon myself to get them dealt with. For all my family knew, I was your average white suburban boy just going through the motions of life. Little did they know, I was a severely anxious homosexual with trust issues, and in need of attention. I had a rocky relationship with my father after he had cheated on my mother with my current stepmother and was a perpetual liar. I never knew whether I could count on the things he would say or if they were going to come to fruition. He loved promising things that he knew he could never deliver, which was the worst part. As I had gotten older, the animosity between my older sister and my father had started to seep into my life as well. I became less naïve when it came to believing things that he had said. His grand ideas of taking us on cruises and beach vacations were never going to come true and I finally had to realize that.
By Jack Peterson6 years ago in Psyche