Liar, you'll pay for your sins.

So, it's recently been brought to my attention that Travis, my ex-step-dad is spreading rumors around Lewistown about my mom. You know, perhaps I was just being silly, but I assumed that a repeat divorcer in his late 40's would know how to break up like a mature adult. Ahhhh, in a perfect world, right?

Now, according to the rumors, the divorce happened because my mom cheated on him. That's NOT what happened. For reasons I may never understand, she loved Travis.  We may have had our problems as a family, but my mom never quit trying and more importantly she never stopped loving him or us kids.  Our dysfunctional little family was everything to Mom. So, why would she do anything to jeopardize that? She WOULDN'T.

What REALLY caused the divorce? Travis and the whole goddamn Ridgeway family is batshit insane. His mom, Marie, is always behaving like she's the victim - When we first moved into our Lewistown house, my mom made a comment about the kitchen cabinets IN OUR HOUSE needing to be cleaned. Some how this broad twisted that into my mom said that she's not welcome in our house and Mom doesn't ever want her to come over. How the fuck she got to that conclusion, my mom and I still to this day don't understand. But Marie threw a fit, and cried and cried and cried until my mom apologized to her and told her she's welcome to come to the house. This lady is in her 60's. Travis's dad. . . well. I'm sure if you know me you've heard the "prayer circle" story. This man thinks he's a prophet. Growing up in southern California, mom and I never had a basement. So when we first moved to Montana, we were freaked out by the basement in our house. It looked like a horror movie setting. Travis made fun of us for it in front of his parents one day, and his dad lost his shit. He told us that contrary to popular belief, fear isn't a normal human emotion. It's a demon. Mom being mom wasn't thinking before speaking and she made a comment about having more demons chasing her by the coattails than she'd like to know about. I thought Travis's parents were going to have a heart attack. They made us hold hands and have a prayer circle as they attempted to "pray the demons out of us." Clearly, mission failed. Travis also has an uncle who will go to restaurants and get under the table and bark like a dog and eat his food on the floor, and another uncle who's institutionalized, though no one would tell us what for.

Family history of no personality, no sense of humor and mental instability aside, my mom still loved that man and stood by his side. Even when he would have a temper tantrum, smack his hands over his ears and scream  "LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU!" until he turned red, my mom still put up with his shit. Clearly the lady is a trooper.

Eventually his parents decided that Mom and I weren't "holy" enough, and since Travis is a little bitch, he couldn't stand up for himself or us. Thus, they decided Mom and I were going back to California and Travis and his sons were moving out to the family commune in the middle of nowhere and living with his Mommy and Daddy so they could control his every move even more.

I think it's funny that they claim that WE are the bad ones. These people manipulate everyone they come into contact with, every word that comes out their mouth is a lie, they steal from their CHURCH FRIENDS, and treat their spouses like shit. But that's okay. That's what their God would want them to do, because they live their lives "through God's word" (Remember, God speaks through Travis's dad.) However, loving your family and being willing to do anything to keep the family together - THAT is what's going to send us to hell. HA.

His parents say that California is a "godless state". I must have missed the fine print under "God Is Everywhere" where it said "except California." Anyone but the Ridgeway's see that? So if my mom, myself, and the rest of California are without THAT God, then I'm perfectly okay with that. Just because we're without their God doesn't mean we're Godless.

The moral of the story here is this; If any member of the Ridgeway family tells you anything about my mom or I, don't believe it. Those people don't know how to tell the fucking truth.