Carl Fletcher

@smallfish485966 · Jan 10, 2026 at 8:01 pm

i feel like i’m a better, happier person since leaving my family & hometown

A few years ago i moved rather far away from my family & hometown. I’ve noticed since leaving i feel not only happier in my day or day life but i feel i’m also now i better person. I’ve always had an unhealthy family dynamic. I don’t have any bond with my parents, grandparents or any extended family. My mother wasn’t much of wife to my dad nor a mother to us kids. My dad on the other hand likes to ignore problems. They divorced when i was 10, remarried, had more kids. I grew up poor. Never had a thing handed to me. I was considered the problem child. I had anger issues, i caused drama in my friend groups and jobs i had. I didn’t really ever care about school or life really. I was angry at the world. I told my family from a young age that i was getting out of there and moving far away. I remember being a child and praying to whatever god is out there that i’d wake up and the life i was given was a bad dream and i had a mom who acted like a mother, father who cared, we had a better house, money, because they did better in life and i was normal.
I moved away in my mid 20’s. I remember no one believed i was actually leaving when i told them. They kinda laughed at me told me i was being