Every now and then Jami will disappear for hours or days. It's often with Rizzo.
This Jami Kirk Rizzo triangle has gone on for over a decade. I don't know how Kirk and Rizz have dealt with this for all these years. They both love Jami and she may love them. Drugs have a lot to do with it all. Jami does seem to be with whichever can supply her habbit but also Kirk and Rizzo connect with each other for drugs too at times. It was over 10 years ago the first time I stopped by and the three of them were staying together in a one bedroom apartment, even all sleeping in a big bed. No, there was never any threesome stuff, just high and passed out together. There is even a place in the room they built in the basement here that Rizz often stays in.
Everyone feels sorry for Kirk but also no one knows why he stays with her.
We've all seen the pattern. They will be out of dope and Jami will start a fight with Kirk and then storm out and Rizzo will be waiting somewhere near and they take off. Kirk's grief is unbearable to be around when this happens! But he stays with her.
This time she left in their truck early yesterday saying she was running to the gas station for cigarettes, would be right back, and it's almost 24 hours later and she is still gone. I've been messaging her and get no response. About ab hour after she left I drove to the gas station to see if she was wrecked or pulled over along the way.
Now it's the tension of worrying what will happen when she returns.
She never really says where she's been. Sometimes there is a long convoluted story about broke down vehicles and dead phones. Sometimes we have to deal with angry people coming looking for her because she took off with their money. This time it was Keetra showing up after midnight. Last time it was a very angry woman banging on our windows and doors.
I never got an explanation or apology of any kind for that one.
I just don't get it. She does this with no care for how it upsets and even endangers all of us. I try to shield Kira from it but she knows. You can hear people through the vents in this house and all of the kids have heard the arguing when Jami returns or just arguments about drugs in general.
I know she is a drug addict. I let her move in on the condition that there wasn't drug dealing or violence in this house. Really, it is that I KNOW drugs will kill her soon and I don't want the guilt if she dies on the street and I end up spending the rest of my life wondering if I could/should have protected her, done more.
Where is the Line?
When do i admit trying to save her does unforgivable damage to the rest of us? Especially the children?
Where the hell is she
When will she return
What will happen when she gets here
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