I have always struggled with my home life. My father has been an alcoholic all my life which led to years of emotional abuse and sometimes even physical. Throughout my life I have struggled a lot with mental health problems and me and my mum never got on because of that. It all got worse when Covid first arrived, I moved out the house because my mum hit me, but eventually I had to move back home and from there things got progressively worse with my mum. She’d kick me out regularly if things weren’t going her way.
Finally when I got kicked out about 10 months ago I decided it would be better for me to stay away and cut ties. After leaving their home I’m starting to realise what an impact that my trauma has caused on my mental health and I’m making steps to better it and my life as a whole. I currently work as a Team Leader at a Supermarket and I am very proud that I got this role at such a young age.
Since getting kicked out I was having to sleep in my car or at family friends’ houses. It’s been hard, even though I’ve had my amazing fiancé with me throughout, I haven’t had somewhere to call my home in a long time. I am now so excited and scared at the same time to think that I have finally got my own home to go back to at night. It’s all becoming so real now that I’m actually going to have a home.
In the near future, I want me and my fiancé to be finally married, with our own home and hopefully make manager at my job.