My family is so confusing to everyone I try to explain them to. For instance, I have 3 half sister's, two from my dad and his previous wife, one from my mom and her previous boyfriend. My dad's previous wife remarried and had a daughter who I also consider to be a sister. My father passed away when I was 4 and my mother, a drug addict, was never really a big part of my childhood or life so I call my dad's previous wife my mother. My mom's daughter also went down the same path and I no longer associate with either of them because I struggled with addiction thanks to the both of them introducing me to drugs when I was 12-13 and doing them with me until I called Socail Services on my mother and moved out when I was 14 (I lived with my mom for 4 years, 10-14). So today, Thanksgiving, I posted a picture of me and my one sister, her mom, and her daughter from her new husband and I had several people message me asking why I captioned it "a mother with 3 out of 4 of her daughters" since she isn't my mom. I constantly feel like people judge me for calling my sister's mom my mom and not talking to my real mother. I just don't really think people understand.

This is me with my two half sisters, their mother, and her other daughter from two years ago.

And this was today.