The day Amanda filed for Divorce, my father, being the caring man he was, decided to leave the house to my mother so that Brenden and I would have a roof over our heads, but this was, in a sense, his first of many poor decisions.
Not the leaving part, no, it was the fact that instead of directly paying the mortgage himself, he instead chose to cut a check to Amanda, giving her a sum of 1800 dollars a month to cover the mortgage, utilities, and daily expenses of raising two children.
The act of receiving almost 2000 dollars a month, which in the late 1990s was quite a bit of money, triggered the woman's greed. Instead of using the money as it was meant to, she began a pattern of spending, effectively wasting every cent on useless trinkets and such.
Unfortunately, the money wouldn't last long, and soon enough, she needed a new source of income beyond working a full-time job; thus, she did two things.
