Creative Writing: Melissa Huber's Relationship With My Father

In 1990 my father, Robert Stiens, only 22 years old, was in a relationship with a woman named Melissa Huber. He had been in this relationship for some time and had already had two children with Melissa. His relationship with her parents was one that was very strained to say the least. The father of Melissa hated my dad so much that by this point in time he had already threatened to call the police several times just for being on the property. They could never seem to agree on anything, and a tension had been brewing for quite some time. Some would even say you could cut it with a knife. This day in history was the day that blows would ensue, my father would be charged with 3 separate charges, my dad would get a probation sentence with jail …show more content…
(Which is quite nice of them considering a gun was pulled.) They’d make my dad leave and they’d call it a day. The two officers left to go do something in their car real quick and Mr. Huber came over and poked my dad in the chest. Now this is the point where my dad should have said alright we’re done here this fighting will solve nothing and the police will take both of us to jail should it continue. However my father decided it would be a good idea to punch Mr. Huber for showing him disrespect and they began fighting once again. At this point the police could no longer let them off easy and had to arrest both …show more content…
He then left his girlfriend and their kids to go start a new life. He decided that moving to California would be the best decision, he went there and lived with his aunt until being able to buy his own place. After having a gun put up to your head, who could blame him? Missy refused to allow my father to have any sort of contact with his kids, Christopher and Cassandra, and even refused to accept child support. (Stiens) She spent their entire childhood turning my father into the bad guy for these children. Robert should have taken her to court and fought for possession of the children. However, being young he was probably too scared to actually try and take care of them by himself or even may have been fearful for his life to try and do a dual-custody. My father would spend the next 20+ years wondering how those kids were doing while spending the time in between starting a new