The most difficult challenge in the rebuilding of my life came after I not only tried to give my life for the truth but my life was almost taken from me by people I trusted and said they loved me and would never hurt me. I left with my kids because we where left in a house that had no heat and no food and it was about to freeze where we would have been trapped, while Jeffery was at my sisters hous...

The title to this chapter says it all. Since the beginning of mine and Jefferies marriage, I had reached out to everyone, there is a memorie of when the whole family went to the stock yards in Fort Worth, everything was fine, or so I thought. When we get back home, I remember standing on my side of the bed and he was standing on his side. He was mad, he started asking me about the cigarettes, I to...

It was 7 years into the marriage, for so long, because I had always seen the cycle with the adults in my life, when they would yell, cuss, throw things, situations would become physical. That I thought it was just part of marriage, I also had my own mother telling me everything would be ok, I had gone to her multiple times trying to get help leaving and getting away from him. When I would work up ...