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So before you read my post just know that it contains child abuse and know i’m in a safe space and I don’t have to see him.

I haven’t spoken to my dad Mark since July 20th and I ended up going to a family reunion and seeing him for the first time since. I ignored Mark for a while and I was hanging with my 3 cousins and 2 of them are 12, the other is 5, and i am 17. They told me the reason I didn’t go over there is because there are ‘too many rules.’ which isn’t the reason, the reason is because he tried to use my moms suicide attempt against me in an effort to make me stay with him. Shortly after my cousins told me that I explained that wasn’t the reason, it was something else and I always will love them and talk to them and then Mark walked in and was talking to my friend ( who i brought for support ).

Eventually he was leaving and I said ‘Mark’ and he’s like ‘Hi, what is it this time?’ and I told him to stop telling people that’s the reason I wasn’t over there anymore and we got more and more heated and when he was walking away I said ‘Real mature Mark.’ because he was taunting me. I told my friend to text her dad and tell him to pick us up.

After that we went down to the patio from the boathouse and my grandma told me she was taking me home and I said ‘My friends dad is on the way to get us.’ and she said ‘We brought you here we’re taking you home. Tell your friends dad to stop coming.’ and I said ‘I would feel more comfortable with them.’ and Mark pushes past my grandmother and shoves me back and corners me onto a brick staircase where I hit my head and he’s over me screaming at me that i’m a child and i can’t make these decisions while i’m flailing around screaming for him to get back and go away. He eventually grabs my hair and drags me towards the steps to get me into the car and my friend is yelling at them to talk to me like a human. Then I’m finally back in a sitting position and i’m kicking him to get him off of me and eventually my friend gets between us and he lets me go.

I run out of the house and start running down the street terrified and crying and then my friend catches up to me and pulls me into the woods and eventually get picked up.