Happy ending's aren't for free

I had a really good weekend

My parents marriage is something of a convenience. When my mother meet my step-father she was living with my grandma and she just recently moved from New York she had a job and a car that she had to borrow from my grandmother  in away my mother had a struggling life, granted she always had a job and a place to go but I believe my mother was always struggling with her self. Then she meet my step-dad he gave her things she never had ( a bank account, her own apartment) a car of her own. I remember hating him when  I first saw him ( I felt he was taking a way my mother and he was old) Till this day I don't know what made my mom fall in love with him.

Well fast track 13 years later and my mom is unhappy with her marriage ( you would think a sane person would just leave and be done with it). My mother stays because she has the financial backing my step-father gives her and she doesn't want to give up the life she has now ( this my opinion not my mothers). She's tells me all the time that she miserable and why is she being punished.. ( really) . When I was younger I use to feel sorry for my mother feeling that way. Now I don't; I do hurt for her because I know she's not happy but she has the choice to leave and she doesn't.

My dad won't leave her because he doesn't have anyone, the children he has from prior marriage don't even talk to him anymore. He's a lonely old man who never had someone to love him as my mom does and I think he takes her for granted.

 I'm afraid if I get married that's how my marriage will be.