Breaking Away from Physical & Emotional Abuse

Leaving an abusive relationship is like being reborn. I don't have a degree in anything. This is my own story of living in abusive relationships for years and finally having the guts to walk away. I am now happily married to a wonderful man. I invite other women who are right now living the life that I once lived to read my story and someday be writing a happy ending to their own lives.

I got married for the first time when I had just turned 23 years old. He was handsome, a hard worker and nice to everyone. A lot of people thought that I was really lucky to find someone like him. They never saw what happened at home. I was being abused all the time, physically and emotionally. But, when my 7 year marriage to my abusive first husband ended, I was devastated. I was about 3 months pregnant with our second child, had just quit my job because he wanted me to stay home, I was sick with kidney problems and my last paycheck was in the checking account that he closed the day after he left. I had no money, the welfare system in our state was too slow and I was at my wit's end. Yet, I wanted that scumbag back in my life and pleaded to him to come back to us (me & our then 6 year old son). I would've done anything at that time to get him back. No matter that he beat me up and gave me a black eye as my Christmas present one year, almost married someone else just before we got married, ran me over in the front yard of my mother's house while our first child watched or the fact that he drank a lot. I wanted him back and I tried up until after our second child was born. He just had had a child with his girlfriend but that wasn't stopping me. I was literally obsessed with getting him back in our lives.