Have you ever been sick and tired of being sick and tired? I know I have more than once. When you just have had enough, all things tend to go through your head. Sometimes it is the right thing to do and sometimes it is the wrong thing to do. We have all been there, right?
I for one have been through so much stuff since a really young age. I have gone through abuse in every form. It started when I was around 12 yrs old and it has migrated up until today.
Abuse comes in many different forms; mental, physical, sexual, verbal, and emotional. It is all abuse. Abuse can't be forgotten no matter your age or which form of abuse you have been through. I have literally been through it all. I have thought about harming myself and/or others. Sometimes I act on it and sometimes I think it through, by asking myself about the consequences or how it would make others feel.
When you become a parent, you tend to ask yourself more questions than get the answers. You pride yourself on making sure that your child(ren) never has to go through the same thing(s) that you have. My children are my number one priority, they are the reason that I haven't acted on a bunch of stuff in my lifetime.
I have been through more marriages than a person should at my age. I got married right after I turned 18 yrs old. Exactly 16 days after my 18th birthday. I did it because I thought I was in love. I got pregnant (found out a month after I got married) and the mental and physical abuse started. When I had my baby, I thought, yes, it will all stop. It did slack up, but then bam, I got pregnant again, there was no getting away then. I endured everything so that my kids wouldn't be done the same way.
I finally got a job, moved into my own place, got a divorce, and bam, jumped right back into another relationship, he said in and out of jail. We got married and out of 2 years, we were physically together for about 6 months. I felt awful. I felt like I deserved his cheating and him acting like I was no good. I endured it because I craved attention when I wasn't working or when my kids went to their grandparent's house. He just wouldn't have it, he wanted to always run the roads or do illegal things to get himself into more trouble. I had had enough. He went to prison and I divorced him.
Then a year later, I met another guy, I was working 2 jobs, I was living in my own place, I had my kids when I wasn't working, because I didn't want my kids to want for anything that I did when growing up. This guy I thought, wow, he treats me like a person and adores my kids, he has kids he takes care of. After a year of being married, the abuse started, yelling turned into trying to break my arm, to sexual abuse, and into cheating, he didn't want to work because I was. Well, he couldn't keep his mouth shut and we ended up getting kicked out of the place I had already lived at for several years. I ended up getting hurt, and then he got mad at me because of it and he actually had to get out and get a job.
We ended up moving in with one of my friends in a whole nother city. I barely knew anyone. Well, once again he couldn't keep his mouth shut or his pants closed and my friend kicked us out because she wasn't going to put up with the way he was treating me and how he would treat her. She had children she had to protect too. Well, I finally found us a place and all crap hit the fan.
Anyways, what I am trying to get at, is it doesn't matter what type of abuse it is, abuse is abuse and it tends to be a vicious cycle if you let it be. Sometimes you have to try and break that cycle yourself. Get to know someone. No matter how much you love someone, if they treat you like crap in any form, then it is time to move on. Sure, it will be hard as hell and you think you won't ever find someone better, but you are wrong. Don't look for someone, be by yourself, work on you, work for what you want out of life. When you come across that person that will be with you through thick and thin and not treat you like crap, you will instantly know.
Yes being by yourself sucks. Yes, your heart will be broken and you don't think that you can survive without that person, but take it from me, you can! You deserve better! Think of what you want out of life besides the relationship aspect and you go for it! Don't settle! You are perfect the way you are and you got this!! You can do it!!