As a women born into dysfunction, physical and mental abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, and poverty I fight every single day to break those cycles. Yes, we all have our own family and life issues we have to overcome but what if some of those family and life issues were inherited? How do you get rid of them?
As a little girl I always wanted more then what my single mother could provide. I wanted to be rich not so that I could spoil myself but so I could spoil my family, my mother, father, uncles, aunts, cousins, and my own children. I knew at a young age life was going to be hard and I needed someone to help me get into the middle class.
Unfortunately, I never found anyone to help me and I fight each and everyday to achieve that goal. I wound up playing a part in my family dysfunction by dropping out of school and getting pregnant at 16 years old. The first time I held my baby I vowed to provide him with a life I never had, to not just provide financially but emotionally. I promised my son that I was going to love him no matter what and was always going to make sure that he felt important.
Well, it is 15 years later and though I have not provided my son with everything I wanted him to have I can proudly say that I continue to try each and everyday. I now have 4 children (2 biological and 2 adopted) but I fight to provide them with a dysfunction free life with a little more then I had. I am hoping that the little more I provide them will continue for generations to come and some day my family will no longer be in the dysfunctional or poverty circles and will be apart of the middle class.
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