The Story of My Life
The Story of My Life It has taken 7 years for me to sit down and write this. This is painful and I am not proud of these things, but feel compelled to tell what has happened to me and why I am who I am today. As a teenager, I began taking drugs and drinking alcohol with the rest of my friends, while my Mom was distracted with working and trying to raise 3 kids. At 17, she couldn’t handle my brother and me any longer and sent us back to Texas to live with my father and stepmother. I can’t speak for them, but I can only imagine the shock they must have been in and the struggles they must have had with two teenagers on their hands and with no warning! After high school, I moved back to Tennessee and was attending college when I met and married Shay’s dad. After having Shay, I had severe post-partum depression. It was so bad that I had to be hospitalized, but 6 months later, I was better and able to start nursing school at UT Knoxville. Still somewhat depressed, I poured myself into being a mother and student, but I was not happily married and something was not right. The problem was not him, it was me. We went
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