so this all starts about 2 weeks ago... my dad was acting all strange at the dinner table and as soon as I left the table and went upstairs i heard my mom sounding distressed and my dad raising his voice, being the nosy piece of stuff that I am, I eavesdropped at the top of the stairs and my dad was going on about how the house we're in stresses him out so much because we struggle constantly to pay the bills and we have so many loans to pay off. it gets heated and he tries to leave that night while my mom is devastated pleading and begging for him not to leave. my mom calls my sister (keep in note i have 2 older sisters involved in the story) and she comes over and kind of cools things down and suggests that my parents get counseling to help fix the marriage.
fast forward a few days: my dad leaves in the middle of the night and leaves my mom a 4 page note talking about how he has failed my mother and how he doesn't deserve her. he wrote that he would continue to support us financially and be involved in me and my brother's life. at that point i had completely lost hope. fast forward another few days- he tells my mom that he would be coming home that night with all his stuff. he eventually comes home later than he said he would, but without all his stuff. so now im listening to their convo in the garage and I find out that my dad has been giving thousands of dollars to some other woman (and i assumed her kids because i heard "them" instead of just "she" also, funny how he's stressed about our finances when he's giving money to somebody else!). he was basically putting my mom down and being extremely condescending.
turns out my other sister who lives with us overheard everything and called my other sister (the one mentioned in the first paragraph), in which she promptly drove over here and completely told my dad off for not protecting my mother/leaving her and supporting somebody else. (keep in mind my dad is not the biological father of my 2 sisters. my sisters are also both fully grown adults.)
the next day my dad takes us to the hotel that he had been staying at and he makes it very clear to me that whatever i heard that no woman had been staying in his room. we then go to the movies and that's that for the day.
fast forward another few days (2 days ago) I overhear my mom on the phone and my dad admitted that he has been having a loveual affair with another woman, so at that point im just like wow he's lied to all of us, but my mom was willing to forgive him and she was saying that the counseling would help, but he would obviously need to cut ties with the other woman for there to even be a chance of working things out. so my dad comes home that night with all his stuff, we have dinner and that's that. everything's kind of normal until this morning.
an hour ago, my mom walks into my room telling me that my dad's leaving and going to the other woman and that i should go tell him goodbye, so I get up walk out of my room and I hear my dad telling my mom "you really are something else" and im just sitting there thinking like there's nothing wrong with my mom, you're the one leaving us for another person. so 5 minutes pass and my mom asks me if i've told him goodbye and i tell her that if he's leaving us i shouldn't be the one that needs to say goodbye. i try walking upstairs but my mom stops me and confesses that she's been suicidal because of all of this and i immediately hug her, and my dad comes behind and there's this awkward group hug and he's telling me "i can't do this anymore". im an extreme introvert so im just silent. my mom's getting mental help starting today and I have absolutely no idea how i should feel about my dad.
he's apparently going to pick me and my brother up tomorrow to go somewhere but im gonna hate all of it because he's gonna be sitting there explaining what's going on and he's going to tell us lies because he doesn't know that I actually know why he's leaving. he's just been telling me and my brother that oh he needs some space and that it's all way too stressful.
ugh
tl;dr: my dad left because he's involved with someone else other than my mom. school starts in 3 days and we can't pay the mortgage. tl;dr tl;dr: we're forgeted
