A single mother of five describes staying in abusive relationships out of fear of loneliness, overlooking red flags even when partners threatened violence. She's now on crutches, a physical reminder of the cost of not walking away sooner.
Single mothers, it's tough out here. And so the men that were willing to accept me with 5 children is not the same man who was willing to deal with me. I feel like they were men looking for help themselves.
Your daughter said a lot of your relationships were toxic. Would you agree with that?
Yeah. A lot of people preyed on me and used me.
Got it.
I didn't see the people for who they, maybe for who they really were. I looked past a lot of stuff because I didn't wanna be alone.
You're on crutches right now. Does this have anything to do with anyone in your relationship? Okay, okay, just asking.
But when I'm disrespectful to them.
Okay, I get, I understand, I understand, I understand.
And we've been arguing because she went on his social media and said all this stuff. We were trying to reconcile. We hadn't had no— Ain't no reconcile, no. You don't get to decide. No, when he threatened my siblings to shoot my siblings and stuff, hell no. It's up forever. It's up forever.