This time last year I had gotten the courage to leave my verbally and mentally abusive ex. I went through hell during the month of January. Timing my packing to when he wasn’t at the house, moving in with my dad, etc. I didn’t have job and welfare was the only way I was getting by. I have two kids and go to school full time and had no way of getting a babysitter for me to work. I cried my self to sleep for months, even considered coming back to my a abusive ex because I was barely making it without him. But I stayed strong. I knew God had me in his mind and heart. Even on my worse days I was sure something better was there for me. In the end of May I by chance ended up meeting someone that I didn’t know would change my life. My boyfriend. We started off as friends, I was too scared to open up again to someone. But it was like he knew he all his life. I cried to him about my abuse and he never left my side. I never believed in soulmates before I met him. Now a whole year later from the time I left my abuser to now, me and my boyfriend are two days away from closing on our HOUSE! I just got hired to a great job and I’m going to school online. My kids love my boyfriend and I could never see a life without him. So people say “it’s so soon how are you sure”. I just know. It’s hard to explain but I just know he’s meant for me. It just feels natural and right. Even on our worse days it feels right. I got the courage to leave my ex fiancé, I got the courage to leave with nothing to my name, no money, no job. Nothing. And look at me now! If you’re in an abusive relationship even if you think you can’t leave, YOU CAN! You can make it without them. You can be happy. You can learn to let someone love you again. Please don’t stay with them. It took a long time and I still have things he’s done to me that I need to help myself get over but I’m better. I can smile for real and mean it when I do it. My life is so different now. I just wanted to spread hope.