Hello everyone! Jake is sick and Stewart is sick, so I've been baby-sitting both of my men for the past couple of days.
You know, I found out something today that tells me a lot about why Stewart is the way he is. My regular baby-sitter is out of town, so I took Jake to Stewart's aunt today. While I was there she told me she felt sorry for Stewart when he was little (probably 3 1/2 years old, or so). I asked her why and she said that Beth (Stewart's mom) "made" over his little brother but treated Stewart badly. I told her I knew that when he was around four or five she would lock him out of the house and make him play under a tree in thier yard. Stewart's aunt said that when Beth had her hysterectomy she, Stewart and Jason (the little brother) stayed with her for about two months. She said that one day Beth lost her temper with Stewart and Karate chopped him across the back on the neck so hard that she made his feet fly out from under him. He landed on the tile kitchen floor and busted his mouth. Stewart's aunt said that she and Beth had words over that. I can't say that I blame her, I probably would have karate chopped her as hard as I could in the back of the neck! She said that the only love and sympathy Stewart got in that house for the whole two months was from her, not his mother.
Now, Stewart has never said that he was abused as a child, and he may not remember and/or consider that abuse, but I consider that child abuse. And when a child is treated like that it is going to affect how he/she is as a grown up. Stewart makes me mad enough to spit sometimes with some of the stupid things he does (but, he is a man), but that story makes me want to go home and hug him and tell him I love him.
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