Psychology Case Study

Paper 2

When my parents divorced I was 9 years old. My mother did the best she could raising us on her own without my father being there. My father moved to Florida to be with his parents due to their declining health at the time. I was always closer to my father than my mother. I looked up to my dad and respected him and was well behaved around him. When he left I felt I was abandoned. My mother was always busy with work she has her PhD in Psychology. Being busy with her clients and always analyzing my brother and I, it was a very hard transition for me. I felt more like a client to my mother rather than her daughter. What happened after my father leaving I had to adjust to only being taken care of by my mother. I talked to my father all the time and missed him immensely and I thought that feeling would never go away.

My mother and I became closer once my father left. I realized very quickly that she was doing her best to give my brother and I everything we could ever need. I started to look up to her and wishing I could be as successful and intelligent as my mother. Being such a strong independent woman she taught me the “ways of the world” in a sense. My mother was my confidant, care taker, friend, mom, in one word she was everything to me. By the time I was 14 she began to date and I was okay with it for the most part. My brother and I were supportive for her dating in our minds she deserved to find someone to be with and treat her the way she deserved to be treated. Christmas came around and she had been dating a man named Matt but never brought him to the house because of my brother and I. She asked us if it were ok if he came over to eat Christmas dinner with us, and of course we were excited to meet him and get to know him better. The dinner came and he drove up in this beautiful Mercedes Benz. He walked up to the house gave John and I both Christmas gifts and my mother a bouquet of flowers. I was very impressed with him and with John and I being children we loved the fact he brought gifts. These next 2 years were the most impactful years of my life and I am still affected by the events that occurred during those teen years.

My mother ended up eloping with this man and did not even tell my brother and I or even our family. He immediately moved in to our house and automatically became our “father” figure. I was resistant to him he was more like a dictator walking around our house. Not only did our household change our mother did as well. She was almost submissive to him, and did whatever he told her to do. My mother was a very successful woman, and this man did not work. He played the injury card to her and she believed him. This man sat at our house on the couch watched TV and smoked in the house and just became a dreadful person to my brother and me. My