The last 2 1/2 years have been hell and getting worse all the time. I regret to say I have not reached any semblance of normality yet. At the moment emotionally I am at 'rock bottom' so things can only go up from here on in.

When I split with my first true love. I thought i'd never get over it. No one compared for a number of years and my heart ached constantly for a VERY long time. It was a real grief.

My life has been spiraling downward over the past couple of years, for a number of reasons, which I won't go into detail with. A few months ago is when I would say I hit bottom, as this is when everything that had been adding up just finally came together to bite me in the ass, and big time. I pulled through with counselling and breaking off ties with the people who were causing me such grief in the first place. Right now I'm still working trying to get to the surface again, but I'm doing a lot better than I was.

uh, 5th through 10th grade. alot of bad shit happened, and such, then this year in 11th i met my true love. and everthing is back to normal, if there is such a thing

When I decided to leave my husband I thought I would never be the same and now I am engaged to a wounder full man.

When I was so broke that all my bills were behind, I had no home phone or cell phone and my car wasnt drivable. I thought I would never get through that period but I made it through.

Now. Life will never be normal again. Que sera sera.

The beginning of 2001. That was the darkness before the dawn for me.

I would have to say, January 2004, after going through a very traumatic event. I never thought I would survive or feel "normal" again. But with the right people. and loving friends, along with educating myself I think it was the worst time, but has surely made me stronger. It amazes me, that some good can come out of something so bad.

5am, June 6 2000. It's been an uphill struggle at time since then, but one day at a time....

The worst time in my life started when my first marriage began unraveling, and my husband had taken a turn from purely emotional abuse (telling me I was worthless, spitting on me etc.) towards physical violence. It continued on after I left him. Although I was certainly happier, I was an emotional wreck, broke, and virtually homeless, with an infant child and no child support. Then I had a bout with appendicitis, my daughter had severe ear infections, and both of my cars broke down at the same time and I didn't have the money to fix them. I did, at least, have good health insurance. I finally was able to move "back home" and rented a crappy, leaky trailer that electrocuted you if you touched the siding when it was raining. I felt like I was at rock bottom, and then I nearly burned the place down accidentally. Everyone in town looked at me like I was trash because I was a single mom, worked a menial job and lived in a crap hole. The circumstances that got me there, and the fact that I was desperately trying to claw myself out of my situation had no bearing on people's opinions. Today, I am a happily married home and business owner, and an active, respected member of my community. My daughter is well-liked and at the top of her class. I am taking classes at the local community college in an effort to help protect me from ever facing such circumstances again. I'm not rich by any means, but far ahead of where I was just 5 short years ago. Whenever something happens, I no longer feel like it's the end of the world. I have the resources to deal with pretty much any situation because I truely have been to hell and back.