In 2001 I was sixteen  and I had just moved to Maryland with my 1 year old daughter moving in with my mother. I was introduced to a preacher and his wife(whose names will not be mentioned ),by my aunt who was living in his basement.  

I have had a colored past with my family so he proclaimed he felt sorry for me and told me how my aunt told him about the things they did to me and how bad I was treated growing up. I got into a real bad argument with my mother not too long afterward. When I ran away I felt safe with my aunt at the preachers house, so that's where I ran to. This is a long story so I am going to make this as short as possible. It wound up in court and preacher and his wife ended up trying to fight for custody because they claimed no one in my family cared for me.Preacher flew my boyfriend down from Louisiana(where I lived before I moved to Maryland) to stay with him so I would feel better while I stayed in a group home until court made a decision. Since preacher was losing and it looked like I was going to end up back in my mothers house preacher came up with a brilliant idea to get myself out of the group home the end result was I ended up marryingmy boyfriendnd and hiding out in hotels till I claimed emancipation. I then moved in with my boyfriends at preachers house. At the age of 16 I got my first job and gave half my paychecks to him and his wife. I was also on their food stamp card. A few months after that the joys of newly weds had went out the door and me and my husband was now arguing. I do believe we caused a lot of stress on preacher and his wife beings that they already had 2 kids and one on the way. He was doing missionary work and she was a waitress.I was working at an ice cream shop. My husband never keep a job no longer than 2 weeks at a time. Soon after him and his wife got into a bad argument and he shook her while she was 7 months or so pregnant. She left him. He tried to commit suicide and had me cab to their church and tell her family what was going on. He was placed in a mental hospital and we was left alone. I was 16 my husband was 17 and my daughter was 1. Neither of us had ever been on our own. About 4 days later the gas and electric along with the phones get shut off... Then comes the landlord stating they haven't paid rent in the last 6 months(mind you I had paid them money toward rent) .

Fast Forward about 2 years and I have been separated from my husband for about 1 year. I am going through more things with my family , have had another baby and have lost custody of my children. Preacher has gotten in contact with me and wants me and my new boyfriend to come stay with him. He promised he will help me get my kids and help me go to school and by this time I am stripping, he promises that I won't have to do that any more.

We move to where he lived and I find out he had got back with his wife in the years we had not seen each otherbut he messed up and cheated on his wife. He told her tried to have his mistress sign custody over to him and his wife , moved her in and then tried to have them all live under one roof as a "happy family" ;. When his mistress miscarried his plan backfired and his wife left him. He then decided he was going be with his mistress but still try to get back with his wife. He demanded that his mistress help him with getting him back with his wife, because in his own words she helped make the mess. Even though he lay in bed with her every night. He started acting weird and making his mistress leave work due to his depression and suicide attempts which he claimed was triggered by missing his wife and kids. During all this I fought back and forth from state to state to get custody of my children. When he pulled what he pulled she ended up losing her job. Before then I was unable to work due to the fact that I was used as a built in babysitter for her autistic child. I couldn't work because either he was too depressed to watch him or they was working. Well she lost her job and my boyfriend came back to his home state. So it was the 4 of us with only one person working and he was very much on the verge of losing his job due to suicide attempts and unfinished projects. So I did what I knew how to do best to make money fast. I started stripping again.I gave him most of my profit toward bills. Then he had the great idea to start a nude/bikini modeling photography career. I volunteered to help him and did his portfolio. I spent about 400 hours or so doing pictures throughout the years for him with nothing to show. Him and his mistress started arguing pretty hard over me and his depression. He started talking about getting her pregnant because that was secretly what she wanted and then not to long after that bam she was with child.I got custody of my children and They moved out of the house taking every dime I had given them for bills not paying again. I was facing eviction only 2 weeks after getting custody of my children and I had no one to help watch my kids while I worked so I stayed home. Though I stilled watched her son. It got to the point where he said he was going to kill him self so many times she gottired of it and told him go ahead and do it so he threatened to throw them both off the high rise condo. I felt bad for her and needed to get out the situation myself so we got together and hounded him till he agreed to take us both back to our home town. He of course followed her. what do you know 2 years later I hear from him. have lost my children due to lack of stability.He tells me how he can help me and how good he is doing. I go back to live with him and find out he needs a supervisor to be able to see his son with his mistress and surprise, surprise who does he have in mind me. I end up working for his lawyer because she feels bad for me and want to warn me about the situation I am about to end up in. I end up showing up in court for him about 4 times and he never once attended any of my hearings while I was there. I ended up attending his church because he had a court order to be able to see his son there in the first place because he made the preacher of the church feel bad for him and agree to supervise.He stopped supervising  when he had a heart attack after preacher and his mistress had argument in church in front of him) After observing the church preacher having heart attacks he himself started having heart attacks every time someone would argue with him or say something he didn't agree with, ot when something hadn't gone his way. Every time he went to the hospital they couldn't find anything wrong. then on about his 5th time with in a week they decided to put a camera in his heart to see what was wrong with it. He told everyone that his condition was so bad he needed to go in for heart surgery. He sent this letter out to everyone who had been yelled at him for harassing his ex or trying to commit suicide and people who didn't believe he was having heart attacks. ...They found nothing. He milked it still though. After a while I purchased a car and his ex mistress all the sudden wanted to talk to him and him to take his son , but I had to be around and he had to pick him up... Using my car of course. He hacked into my boss's email account and she fired me saying it was a hazard to her job to allow me to continue to work there while I lived with him. So what I failed to tell you throughout all this is he stopped working and was now solely living off me..So I started dancing there too. He started seeing his son and taking my car so I couldn't work. then we what do you know can't pay our bills and eviction hits. I pack my stuff after having an argument with him over him taking my car and me not being able to work.

I now see posts everywhere with him telling people how he took me in and raised me as a child, but I can't help but feel like I got the short end of the stick. Is this what fathers do?