: About Me

After 20 years of being a Domestic Violence Victim, I have moved on to better things. My children, both are adults now, and I are closer now than ever. We have discussed our lives and I have asked them to understand why I never left sooner and apologized for making them live through the most strenuous part of my life and I am sure theirs too.

I have found myself happier with the small things in life and less focused on material things. Having always written in journals, I would love to prevent one person from enduring the same hell that I went through. So I am on my way to educate through writing. This is a new experience for me. Having no writing experience in the past, I hope that some of my past experiences and feelings can hit a nerve in at least one person and help them.

Starting part of my life over at 44 is now a challenge. Mentally stronger, but older, I face the future with looking for employment in my hometown. I am very straight forward and find this to be a quality that can be good or bad, depending on the employer. I still have many obstacles to overcome and it sometimes makes me very nervous if I look way out in the future, so I have to live each day as it comes.

My passion is ...

my family

I know too much about ...

Drug addictions and domestic violence

My parents always told me ...

It does not matter what you do as long as you give it your all

My childhood ambition ...

To be a police officer

My favorite memory ...

My mother spitting out her brand new false teeth when she yelled at me

Why I write ...

To relieve stress and encourage others.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Lots of self-help books, craft ideas and classic rock

My first job ...

Working at a Dairy Queen

My best moment ...

Telling my ex-husband he was no longer my concern

My inspiration ...

My two boys. (Men)

Relationships & Family > Domestic Violence & Abuse Is there life after domestic violence?

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Each morning when you wake up and can see the sunlight or feel the warmth of the sun or the chill from a frost tells you there is life in any situation. Even during my bout of 20 years of domestic violence, I felt I had a life. No, it was not the one that I had planned or ever dreamed of having, but it was "life". I was not rich and married to the most handsome, loving and caring husband. I was married to a physically and verbally abuse man that took every ounce of my soul and tried to crush it. I like to think of it as a test of my faith and the foundation for a relationship with someone ...

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