Over the years of watching her in this relationship, there were so many incidents. So many encounters and interventions.

Someone needs to hear this, so hear it goes...

I always said, “I would never let a man put his hands on me.”

While pregnant I found myself having an occasional glass of wine and a joint, just to take the edge off and as an attempt to numb the pain.

Our daughter was born in May. A month later I found out the other woman was expecting with what I assumed was his child.

He was tall, slender, with a medium brown complexation, and had the perfect 70's Afro.

I have come to believe there is so much more to us than the light that the world sees. I believe what they see in us is simply the Lighting

I paused through the tears and thought, “God if you don’t help me I will die.”