How wonderful...I envy you. I should write a book...between my two parents there were 8 (eight) spouses...4 each. I didn’t really know them all, and I have not used that fact to wallow in misery. In fact I’ve tried to do the opposite...not always successful, but always trying.
Good for you. Hang in there. We should not allow others, especially dead-beat parents to ruin our lives. Way, way, way to many kids allow that to happen. Mamma or Daddy was a drug head or alcoholic and thus we have to be one also. Wrong!! You are what you make of yourself. What you want yourself to be. If you are lazy as hell, then yup, you will end up in jail like dear ole dad, selling coke on the street corner and knocking off the 7-11 down on the corner. Kids today have been handed a tough road because of the larger amount of dead beat parents, but they have to realize that they can be what they want themselves to be. It is as simple as that. I knew I was not college material back then, so I knew I had to get a job. So, I went into the military. I completed over two years of college in the military, but by the time I retired from the army, I had a skill to sell on the outside so I did not complete college. But, if you don’t have a decent skill to sell on the outside when you leave the service, then you had better have a plan to reeducate yourself to be able to market yourself. Hang in there. You certainly seem to have the right attitude to do it.