Her dad is one of my first really life changing experiences.

I was a devil child testing the limits on anything and everything. Anything forbidden was music to my ears. I partied hard doing every single drug I could possibly get my hands on bouncing around like a duracell bunny on every Rave I could find until the day I got pregnant. I was 20 years old. My amazing daughter saved my life no doubt I was heading in a bad direction.

He was a drug addict living at a home for troubled teens. That might scare some girls off but to me that just made me want him more. I love trouble that’s just who I am, or was back then anyways.I got pregnant after only seeing him for 6 months and after that all hell broke loose. He was lost in a sea of drugs and that got the best of him and he soon started to abuse me.I really thought he was gonna kill me at times when he went totally bananas. I didn’t wanna tell anyone, not because I thought it was my fault and I deserved it, NO WAY, but because I wanted to prove everyone wrong when they said I couldn’t raise a baby at 20.

I tried everything in my power to help him clean up his act, but he only got worse. He stole all my money and kept abusing me, and when my daughter was born, my beautiful angel child, I had enough. No more, so I kicked him out.He kept harassing me for about a year and the last time I saw him was when he tried to kill me while my daughter was sleeping in the next room only 10 months old. That was it.

Somehow I got him off me and called the police but he was long gone by the time they got there. I pressed charges for everything he had ever done to me and that felt really good. It took me years to recover from that, but I made it out alive and I’m so grateful for that! I got my amazing beautiful daughter out of it so no regrets.

4 years went by of just working, supporting my little family trying to patch myself up as much as I could.