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bogus123
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What's the hardest thing you've ever had to overcome?
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Just wondering...here's mine. Its very personal, but I don't know you guys and I am okay sharing it now. 10 years ago I began a relationship with a man who was a few years older than me. He had 2 sweet kids that I quickly feel in love with. 1 month into the relationship he became physically, emotionally and sexually abusive. I tried to leave many times, but each time he came up with a new threat to my family...so I stayed. A full year went by and one day I looked at him and said "I'm leaving, today". By the grace of God...I got all my stuff packed in an hour and walked out of that house. That same night, just happened to be the night I met my husband! 2 weeks after I left, I got a phone call at work saying my ex had committed suicide. I had to end up getting a restraining order against his mom, because she would call me 10+ times a day and threaten me. It was avery hard time, but with God, a great family and my boyfriend(now husband) I was able to pull through and it has made me a stronger person. What's your story?
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Re: What's the hardest thing you've ever had to overcome?
Wow Emily -- that's an amazing story. You are such a strong woman!
Absolutely, with God all things are possible.
You are an inspiration. It takes a tough lady to leave such a horrible situation.
The hardest thing I've ever dealt happened when I was pretty young. My mother has severe mental and emotional issues. She was verbally and physically abusive to me as a child. It was all hidden from my father though.
When I was 9 my dad and I came home from church to see she had attempted suicide. It cause all the abuse to come out. It was a terrible and insanely confusing time for me.
However, after that my parents split up and my mom kind of disappeared which turned out to be the best thing ever. My father is an amazing man and was with me for prom dresses, first periods, and my wedding. It's hard to hear about all those amazing mothers out there going shopping doing all those normal mom things and I feel in some ways like I missed out.
I feel like I gained more than I missed out on. I had a great male role model who I think influenced me to my amazing DH and it taught me how very important my babies are and what it means to be a good mother.
I don't normally talk about this but since the bump is supposedly semi anonymous and all very supportive.
When I was 13 I was sexually and physically assaulted by my "boyfriend." We were young and I'd never had a boyfriend before and we never did anything because we were just kids and apparently it ticked him off. I ended up in the hospital with several broken rips, a punctured lung and a fractured wrist.
His sister who I was BFFs with invited me to be her friend on facebook. I had no problems with her since she never knew (I didn't talk about it to anyone but a shrink for years) so I accepted. I saw the other day she was going to his daughters first birthday. I wanted so bad to message his girlfriend.
BFP #2 11/30/09 EDD 08/12/10- Sophia Grace born 8/1/10
BFP #3 11/16/10 EDD 08/04/11- Samuel Richard born 7/28/11
BFP #4 01/04/12 EDD 09/19/12- Simon Nathaniel born 9/6/12
BFP #5 03/27/13 EDD 11/25/13- Savannah Lee born 11/18/13
Terrible.I'm so sorry for the loss of your sister.
I can semi-relate to this. My parents were on a motorcycle and were T-boned by someone who ran a red light. My Father was killed almost instantaneously and my mothers whole left side was crushed and was in a coma for 3 months with a severe closed head injury, i cant tell you how many surgeries she has undergone. My father was resuscitated a couple times but there was to much internal damage i'm guessing. I almost lost both my parents in that one day, Thankfully my mother is still here today and fully functioning and able to watch Makaia grow. Now however, I am super paranoid driving anywhere near motorcycles and I never run red lights.
This whole thread makes me want to cry.
EDD- 06/13/2017
**Stinkerbelle-8-27-10 * Mr.P's 2nd Mama 7-27-07**
Hugs and respect to everyone in this thread.
When I was about 5 or 6, we were staying with my great-grandparents. My grandfather had suffered a stroke years before and took medication to prevent psychotic effects. He missed a dose that day, and that evening had a psychotic episode. My sister and I had to hide under the bed while he went to the garage to get a metal chain to "wring my neck." He searched the house for me, and I have no idea how my great-grandmother knew he wouldn't look under that bed.
I know eventually my great-grandmother got him to take his medicine, but I don't remember anything about the rest of that night. For all I know my sister and I fell asleep under the bed until my parents got there. My parents never let my great-grandparents babysit us again.
I forgot about the whole thing until I was in college. When I finally remembered it, it explained a lot of life-long nightmares, as well as why I had been afraid of him and a little relieved when he passed away. It took several more years for me to understand how that situation had affected my relationships with men.
Similar to this. I was molested by a friend's uncle when I was around 12. I didn't know what was happening at the time so my memory blocked it out. Until I got to college and got severely depressed from repressing the memory for so long. It messed up my dating relationships and until I went to therapy for a couple years, I was finally able to move on. But it still haunts me some days.