Tuesday, August 29, 2006

What's Enough? Part II

Please read Part I first.

When she tells the drug dealer she's pregnant, he's furious. He pleads with her to get an abortion. She's not havin' it. She wants his baby. She's terrified of being alone and she wants some more of his "good genes" for another child. He declares that she won't see a cent from him and he will never see her again.

He's good to his word. He never comes back to see her again for a "tune up". She carries the baby, demanding her friends show loyalty to her and throw her an extravagant baby shower, even though most of them think she's a fool. She finally gives birth to a beautiful baby girl. The dope dealer still no where to be found.

Her son is preparing to go to college. She demands that he choose a college close to home. He has his heart set on Morehouse, but he'll have to settle for a school in Michigan. He's also called upon to handle babysitting duties, effectively cramping his style during his senior year. His mother decides that she wants to be a stay at home mom, quits her job and cashes out her meager 401K.

During the spring, she feels that the indifference that the drug dealer is showing is too much for her to bear. She decides she's going to move to North Carolina with her daughter with no job and while running low on funds. Her son is heartbroken. He's committed to begin summer classes at college at a school he doesn't want to go to, and now his mother is leaving the state.

She leaves in an abrupt fashion and her best friend, a person who's counsel she has up to this point ignored, is asked to help her son transition into his college life. She moves to a bug ridden little hole of an apartment, miserable and lonely, except for her precious daughter. She calls her son constantly, even when he's in class. She complains to all her friends about the mistake she made.

After living in North Carolina for three months and her money running low, she tries to find employment to no avail. She talks to her son and he tells her his father has been berating her. "He said you're stupid for leaving here with no job and no family support." That was all she needed to hear. That was the drug dealers way of saying he missed her. She decides to come back to Michigan, breaking her lease.

She moves in with her mother and reapplies at her old place of employment. She gets re-hired, now with one of her subordinates as her boss, the lowest seniority in the place, and much lower pay. She is in effect right back where she started, but much, much worse.

She says she's going to take the drug dealer to court this time, to get child support for her daughter. I say good luck with that. But at least she got his attention, hunh?

KZ

35 comments:

chele said...

This story definitely tops all the stories I've heard regarding how far a woman will go to humiliate herself for a guy.

Damn.

So, she gave up everything just to get his attention? Now she's living with her mama struggling to make ends meet.

I'm trying to be nice ... you know ... not wanting to judge this sista. But she's a fuckin idiot.

Knockout Zed said...

@Chele
LOL@trying to be nice.

I hope you're nicer to me!

KZ

Ming Houser, Realtor said...

WOW! That's sad. She has messed up her life and sounds determined to mess up her son's. I feel so sorry for him.

I have no feelings or words for her...just pity.

Knockout Zed said...

@Dynasty
Being in the middle (not really the middle!!!!) of this story since about 4 years ago and watching it unfold, I no longer pity her. I've seen the support and advice she's been given blown off.

KZ

Isha said...

"What you won't do, do for love, you've tried everything but you won't give up. In my world only you, make me do for love what I would not do."

Translation: I'll be a fool just so you will "love" me.

Man I if I had more time and space to speak.

Knockout Zed said...

@Isha
This story is so much more than I've written. There are so many backstories and entitlement issues associated with this woman, I couldn't begin to do it justice on this blog.

KZ

onefromphilly said...

I'm exhausted. I hate to use the word hate. But damn, I hate stupid people! I can't be friends with them. They take up a lot of energy. Sometimes my brain doesn't want to use all that horsepower to deal with them.

A.u.n.t. Jackie said...

i'm going back to bed, this story has officially depressed me.

times like this i'm so glad i ain't nobody's baby mama, and i'm particularly glad my mamma didn't raise no fool!

NegroPino™ said...

Cant feel sorry for ppl like this cuz they do it to themselves sounds like my sister....

Prophetess said...

Scared of being alone? Give me a break, girl! Get a dog for your solitude, NOT more illegits with a man who clearly is on his own level of little to no understanding.

Zed, don't get tangled up in this girl's mess.

The dope dealer gone need more than just dope to pay his child support for the daughter. She and he are not EVEN thinking about the son; that baby needs support, too! Hell, he's owed 16 years of arrears.

Maybe we oughtta pray for them all.

The son and daughter are the ones who will really be hurt behind all this...

Knockout Zed said...

@OneFrom
You think you're exhausted from afar? I'm dying over here!

@Miss Ahmad
It's like she KNOWS better but won't do better. That's the sad part. If you were to ask her, she can articulate all the stupid things she's doing. She knows they're stupid, she just can't help herself.

@IllNaNa
Kinda sounds like one of my sisters, too (it's not!).

@Jojo D.
She's fuckin' her kids and basically setting them up for a lifetime of taking care of her ass.

KZ

ChezNiki said...

That woman cant be helped, its too late. Whatever happened to her in her past, to make her risk her life and her children's life over some d*ck, will take years of therapy to correct. Unfortunately, her kids dont have that much time...

Help that young Brother to keep his head up and help him fill out applications and financial aid forms for a January transfer to Morehouse...or to any other school in another zip code!

Im lonely as hell, and I do put up with some bullsh*t to avoid being lonely. But once it crosses over into my family, health or safety, Im DONE. I dont understand women who think otherwise.

Knockout Zed said...

@Chezniki
This is what it all comes down to. When the dumb ass decisions we all make come back to affect the fam, it's time to change. This is the very reason I don't have kids today. I'm dead serious. I like making frivolous ass decisions that only I will have to pay for. You just dropped some knowledge, mama.

KZ

Newy said...

She is trying to use sex as a weapon to fill a void....*smh* Alot of times we (women) make excuses for why the man is acting a fool...she needs to wake up...it's not that he doesn't want a relationship, it's that he doesn't want a relationship with HER. I was caught up in a 12 year cycle of on again off again like that but at least I didn't have his kid.

Miz JJ said...

I have never loved any dude that much. Ever. And if I ever do I hope someone shoots me in the head before I act like that. I mean to put a dude over your own children?? To squash the dream of your son to attend the college he desires and then to desert him? WTF. That is fucked up beyond reason.

A.u.n.t. Jackie said...

not wanting to be alone is valid.

having children is also valid.

parents every day have children that they are not sure they can afford, relationships falter and die and mamma's are left alone.

to vilify this woman who clearly has unresolved issues is hard though because she represents a huge population of babies having babies.

what about the man still selling drugs, having unprotected sex while married to someone else, knowing good and damn well those are his kids and thinking he's above reproach.

two wrongs don't near make a right!

Rashan Jamal said...

That's enough.

Honest said...

Well what can one say? At least both her children have the same set of parents.

I hope both her children have more positive relationship in their lives.

i like liquor and tv said...

I hate when people do dumb stuff...but when they do dumb stuff with kids around. That just irks me.

ChezNiki said...

@MissAhmad-You know what? Youre absolutely right. The drugdealer, sperm donor a$$hole knew exactly what he was doing. His whole livelyhood is based on taking advantage of people in a weakened state. I didnt mean to let him off the hook. I guess I just expect better of a woman.

@RobertMack-She probably is. There are hundreds of us in the book-smart brigade out there walking around with angry c**chies and lonely beds, while the chickenheads of the world are on their third husband. Insanity!

Angie said...

Zed - I crawl over there behind the bushes every day and check out your blog. Love it! It gives me insight into the male psyche. LOL

Today I feel compelled to comment because this woman sounds like someone I know very well. My mother. She made some pretty disturbing, ill thought out and just plain dumb decisions because she was in love with my father. I'm almost 40 and I'm just getting over some of the shit that happened when I was younger. But - after growing up and making my own mistakes I feel a certain empathy for her that I didn't feel when I was younger. I've forgiven her and my father and moved on. But,I'm just saying, we can't judge so harshly. Trust me, in time we will all make some type of fucked up decisions, and live to regret them. Peace

Knockout Zed said...

@Newy
She thinks this is all she's worthy of. By all accounts, this cat shoulda been dead or in jail. He's one of the lucky ones. Now he owns lots of property, nightclubs, stores, etc. That's her ideal dude regardless of those other women.

@Miz JJ
I personally have tried to reach out to her son as much as I could. He's a cool young cat, in spite of the bullshit. She's hurting his feelings so bad. Early in her pregnancy, he asked her how she could be so foul as to have sex with his dad and he was married.

@Miss Ahmad
As wrong as that African is, he didn't become a snake last night. He was a snake from jump. I guess she thinks she's a snake handler.

@T Cas
You'd think that was enough, wouldn't you? She's trying to go see him this weekend "so he can see his baby". He's never seen the baby that had her first birthday last month.

@Honest
I guess that's something, isn't it? If somebody needs a fuckin' blood transfusion or a kidney, I guess.

@L and TV
She'd irk the shit out of you. For real.

@Mack
She WAS a nice looking lady. I've watched her decline rapidly in the time I've known her. The night I met her, it was a toss up between her and her girl. Luckily, I chose her girl!

@Chezniki
I know this story probably looks like I let the dope dealer off the hook, but I honestly don't know him. I know her. And I know how her shit is affecting her friends and family.

@Angie
I really don't profess to understand this emotion you humans call "love". I try to deal with the logical and illogical. Even if I don't agree with a decision someone makes, if they can lay out their reasoning for making the decision clearly, I leave them alone. All I see is the mistake after mistake. When called on it, all she says is "Yeah, I know." And then she wants help. I can't take that shit.

I appreciate you coming out the woodwork to kick it. Come out more often!

KZ

TTD said...

wow.. this is just sad.. no need to give advice to her if she doesnt listen.. only thing left to do is pray for her..

BZ said...

Wish there was court-enforced child-support laws when I was a kid! I'm sad for this woman. At the same time, mad because she's f*cking up her own children's lives. *sigh*

Phoenix said...

what the fuck - this happens all the time "In the Ghetto"

A.u.n.t. Jackie said...

they sound perfect for eachother. she has someone to blame her troubles on, and he has yet another reason to stay below the law!

everybody has a match i tell ya!

Zeezy4Sheezy said...

promise to slap me, better yet punch dead in my jaw if get a chick pregnant cuz she told me to take off da rubber!!

Disco said...

do i know this person?

Little Brown Girl said...

I'm mad I tried commenting all day but something was wrong. Ok so nevermind cause everything I wanted to say has already been said...*sigh*

Oh by the way...how dumb can you be????

aquababie said...

after reading this, i feel better, i've been doing some dumb shit lately, but not this crazy.

i'm praying her son leads a life of his own. his mom could use some therapy.

and after reading this, i'm calling my therapist back...

Knockout Zed said...

@TTD
I ain't prayin' for her. I'll pray for the kids.

@BZ
She's got some pipe dream that they'll be together. She's quite delusional.

@Miss Ahmad
I think his wife is perfect for him. She knows all about this situation. EVERYTHING.

@Zeezy
Life is real different when you don't give a fuck. At least I gotta think so.

@Robyn
No, and thank goodness you don't! She's a fuckin' idiot. She's a friend of an ex-fuck buddy.

@RD
I personally keep trying the limits of idiocy. I think it's limitless.

@Aqua
I hope that young fella don't knock some girl up.

@Koffee
You gotta believe she had to know better. Her grip on him was even less than it was 17 years before.

KZ

Ms. Confessions said...

Sucks to be her!!!

Why oh Why?

Angel said...

WOW...

you know what's interesting though zed? the fact that sometimes, the people on the inside are truly envious of the people on the outside. meaning, it's one thing to look at a situation from the "onlooker" perspective. and it's another to wish that you (s the person being looked at) had the opportunity to be on the outside for once.

*sigh* my heart hurts for this woman. not only because of the decisions she's made, but how those decisions have went from only effecting her grown ass, to severely effecting all she comes in contact with... :-/

Mr.Slish said...

So this is what you talk about around the water cooler at your job huh..lol

BKBajan said...

Sweet Jesus and his mother Mary, this is definitely a FUBR - cuz she is fucked up beyond all recognition - I've heard and seen and was even guilty myself of doing dumb shit cuz I thought it was fa love (trifflin ass muthafuka, I loved him) but nevvaa to this extent - this even tops, he beats me cuz he loves me bullshit. This one made me go to Jesus and curse all in the same comment.