Surviving In More Than Hell

by Kat
(lake wales, fl)

This is my first blog ever..I just feel the need to finally tell someone my story.

It all started after my divorce from my husband that i married at the young age of 16. After spending 2 years with this low life of a man, i finally decided its time to move on.

Then i started dating and found a new man, He was great, he was awesome, he was everything my ex wasn't. That all ended about a month after we moved in together. Once we found out i was pregnant everything went back to awesome. We were a happy couple, until he started having to be in complete control of me at all times. When i was going to work, he would be harassing me, asking me silly questions, hinting at me cheating (mind you, i'm like 7 months pregnant). This continued on until we had our baby. Then he got laid off, and i went back to work. Then the real nightmare started.

He started choking me, said it wasn't domestic violence because it didnt leave a mark. I started reaching out to his family at this point, and his dad (a known woman beater)came to my home and asked me what i did wrong..!!!!???!! WHAT???, so i crossed him off as help and realized i was on my own, my family is in another county, and after one failed marriage i didn't want to break this news to them. So here we are almost a year later and i'm still in the hell i call a life, my parents now know that my relationship has problems, but not near the extent. I'm sorry for those of you who are reading this and are mad that i'm still sticking around. I can't explain why i am myself. As for my daughter, she is fine. I have her in daycare while i'm at work and "he" is still unemployed, but is now in counsling. Hopefully, you see that a realtionship can be fixed with time and effort. But i'm not going to lie. If it wasn't for me finally reaching out to my family and them stepping in and taking him in, we wouldn't have made it nearly this far. Hopefully, this will help someone feel better. Thanks for taking time to read this :)