Silence Ain’t Love

i’ve always been told if you write it down, it helps with healing, maybe so, but still hard to get started. My journey into this began early. I was about 4 or 5 maybe when i was sexually abused by a family friend who babysat us sometimes. Then was attacked while riding my bike across the schoolyard by a nother student at my school. Then raped by a classmate when i was a teen in high school. I never told anyone about it until i was older, but never my family. So my self esteem was pretty low.

I married at 18. First husband was a cheater, a drug abuser and alcoholic. Rocky relationship from the start, but i ended up with two beautiful children. He was never physically abusive until we separated. Then he showed up at my place one night and broke a window and hit me in the nose. We divorced. That was the first time i EXPERIENCED DOMESTIC Violence.