Vickey Cooper:  

Life Moved from Westwood area in December 1972, and attended Bartlett High School and graduated from there. I have always been mad at my parents for packing up and running. I hated my new neighborhood, and it never became the home that Westwood was to me. I married young, trying to get away from what I thought was "dominating parents". LOL, how that thought changed after I had children of my own. I became my parents, but I think my children and I had a much better relationship, as I always made them aware that anything and everything could be talked about in our house. I allowed them to be a party to any major decisions, it did not mean that they had control, I just took their feelings into consideration. I tried to make sure they had happy childhoods and no regrets. I was married and divorced at 19. What a jerk! Not him, me!! I know now, I married for all the wrong reasons with that one. Then married 3 years later. This marriage lasted 19 years. I should have left earlier, but at the insistance of my parents to get a divorce I was determined to show them that I could make it work. But the booze and the beatings were not getting better, only worse....I finally gave up and moved out. I adventured out in a big way. Flew to Austraila in 1997 to meet an internet love. He was everything he protrayed himself to be, except........he was a dead beat dad!! I have no respect for a man who does not support their ch...Expand for more