“You’re fat, ugly, stupid and I’m going to cut your face up. If anyone takes a second look at you it’s because you’re so F---ing disfigured. You’re not even a whole woman anymore, no one will ever want you!” The beatings began just after we married. After 14 years of beatings, one night I woke up the girls. We left and never went back. In high school I allowed a teacher to cause me to feel so ashamed about being pregnant my senior year, I dropped out with a full scholarship to college. I gave it up because the first time I felt my baby move inside me I knew I couldn’t leave her. She felt like bubbles. I was given a choice by my mom. Go to college or get out and marry the baby’s dad. I blame no one but myself for the decisions I’ve made. My …show more content…
mom had two abusive marriages and my dad, he left when I was five. Me: sexually molested at seven & ten years old, beaten by my husband the girls biological father, a sinner strong in faith, a fighter, two time cancer survivor and a college student with a 3.87 GPA. I am MaryAnn Uribe, I’m 47. I now have Complex PTSD, Bipolar I, OCD, and Agoraphobia. I have been unemployed since I whistle blew against my former employers 2011. Keith Gould and Paul Andrews, both indicted for felony barratry. Paul Andrews now disbarred, indicted and awaiting trial also for Solicitation of Capital Murder. Paul while on felony bond, hired someone to kill me and I was watched for four weeks. He had a change of heart and cooperated and Texas Rangers. My former employer again, arrested and released on bond unmonitored. This from the cowards who wants me dead. The stress and fear sent me into hiding and caused my disabilities. But from the negative I made a positive to make my disabilities work for me. Agoraphobia, Complex PTSD and Bipolar I, combined with OCD cause me to live confined to my bedroom and I obsess on school. After law school I plan on practicing as an appellate attorney who makes my clients’ case my obsession. Appellate law is largely done all online, therefore it works for me. Despite everything I feel I am blessed, surrounded by angels I call friends and those I have lost to the heavens.
Most I’ve met throughout my career and by helping them with what at a time in their life was very difficult. I had no idea what to do for a video, since my speech is affected by my disabilities, so in a search for the answer to the topic question, I sent out a mass text message. I was overwhelmed, humbled, and the video issue solved. I will read from those whose lives I have I touched through my job as a legal assistant and radio personality. At a turning point in my life I became very outspoken, I’ve seen more doing my job and in life that people only see in movies. Those experiences and the abuse haunt me. I made the choice, and criminal law was all I knew, I was good at my job and I provided well, for my girls. Now they provide for me. After all, each of us do what we must for reasons many others will never understand, nor is it anyone’s business to judge. I’ve always wanted to become a lawyer. I disappointed my mother when I became pregnant and she knew how hard my life would be without an education. Her first job began at 3am, six days a week making tortillas at a restaurant, she was home by 7am to get ready for her full time job. She cleaned houses and offices seven days a week into the late hours every night. She wanted better for me and I failed
her. Blessings come to us in many forms. For me, it was the ability to forget or repress memories. My mom doesn’t know this, but the first time I did something to make someone feel good, was when I didn’t say something I knew would make them feel bad. At seven I spent the night at my friend’s home where I was sexually molested. I went home and waited for my mom to come from her first job so I could tell her what happened. She rushed in, showered and dressed to leave for her next job. I sat on the floor to help her with her shoes and I looked down to see her foot blood soaked from blisters. I knew if I told her what happened to me, she would blame herself for always working. I didn’t say anything; not to anyone. I never spent another night there and I suppressed what happened to me, to keep from hurting her. My daughters’ biological father didn’t drink, smoke or use drugs. He was an abusive controlling psychopath and from the day we married the beatings began. I had no education, no place to go and I knew our escape was a job that paid me well enough to support and protect my girls alone. My job as a morning radio personality wasn’t enough. During the 80’s domestic violence was a joke with law enforcement and I learned not to call police, I took so many shots to the head I began to have migraines. During a hospital stay, a neurologist explained my MRI revealed I’ve suffered numerous concussions resulting in frontal lobe damage. I realize now the causes for my lapse in memory. I was on the air one morning, my face nearly unrecognizable from the swelling. Fed up, I opened the phone book, closed my eyes, prayed, pointed to a name and called a lawyer. The lawyer come to the phone just when I had to break for the weather, so before I explained my situation; he recognized my voice. He offered to represent me for free. “Just say “hi” to my wife on the radio, she is running for State District Judge.” Point blank, I didn’t earn enough so I stayed married and although the beatings continued, I continued to look for work. My radio show was very political, I interviewed local city and state politicians on my show. My personality sold itself and soon the lawyer who I saw for my divorce, hired me part time to help him with a custody battle and my foot was in the door. I learned as much as I could from some of the best and learned what not to do as well. Opportunity came, a high profile defense attorney pursued me to work in his office. After repeated offers I declined until he said “Name your price”. I did, believing he would refuse but he didn’t, and my boss told me, “This is your way out, I can never afford to pay you that much.” That was the beginning of the end of the living hell of a marriage and 90 days later I divorced him. Counseling has been a lifeline for the girls and myself. Counseling brought balance and closure for my girls and we understand sometimes considering what we can’t change, as dead, as buried is best. I broke the cycle of abuse. I wanted them to grow to know and respect diversity. I exposed them to everything; different religions, music, cultures I worked hard and things fell into place. I’m going backwards in life, but life isn’t always about plan A, B, or C. I began college at 45, inducted into Phi Theta Kappa and graduate with my youngest this December. I live everyday on a roller coaster. Agoraphobia is extreme or irrational fear of public or crowded places. I rarely leave the four walls of my bedroom and I obsess on school from the moment I wake until I go to bed. The remainder of my classes are online. I am pending admissions to Troy University. They have an all online program in Communications. Why, communications? It’s simple; attorneys largely feel the need to elevate themselves with their big words and legal jargon to try to prove how smart they are. They often forget they are speaking to normal people. I know the “fancy” words too, but I don’t feel the need to use them to convince anyone I am superior. Humility, honesty and my word that I will do the best job I possibly can, is what I can promise. I love helping people and life. Law school isn’t a choice; it’s what I was meant to do. I can’t do everything, but I can do some things & I refuse to allow what I can’t do interfere with what I can do! God gave me this life because he knew I was strong enough to live it. I need this scholarship more than words can say; but I would be happy if it goes to someone who needs it more than I do.
How do you feel about home birth? When it comes to most peoples minds they most likely think that is just horde, and that they world never even think of baring there child that way. After reading this I hope that you will change you mind, or reconsider it. home birth is better then the hospital in many ways, and i'm going to share with you many of those ways with you. In the articular ( Midwifes alliance) is says, (Journal of Midwifery & Women’s Health (JMWH), a landmark study** confirms that among low-risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies. This study, which examines nearly 17,000 courses of midwife-led care, is the largest analysis of planned home birth in the U.S. ever published.The
In the book, Outgrowing the Pain: A Book For and About Adults Abused as Children, Dr. Eliana Gil discusses the causes and effects of traumatic experiences adults abused as children have undergone during their childhood. Throughout the book, Dr. Gil introduces various types of abuse within the family such as emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. Furthermore, Dr. Gil explains how to guide these once mistreated adults to understand and cope with each situation.
Everyone of you hearing this, whether I’m reading it to you or you are reading it yourself need to understand that you need to thank god your mothers wanted you. We are blessed by each person on this Earth, including you. Justin Bieber, Celine Dion, Pope John Paul II, even Steve Jobs were almost victims of abortion. Could we imagine a world without the technological advances discovered by Jobs? No matter what your point of view is, whether Pro Choice or Pro Life, the fact alone that your mother did not think you were “inconvienient” or “a financial leech” should be enough to make you Pro Life. Of course it isn’t always this simple, but no matter what, you’re here. Count yourself lucky that you were given the right to life. Now, why is it just that you get to breathe the same air as I, yet millions of abortions are occuring each year? Let me rephrase that. Why is it that you live and say you are Pro Choice when there are milliions of babies, innocent lives killed each year? No matter how many times you say it isn’t viable therefore it doesn’t have a right to life doesn’t change that it is indeed a life. Someone (Pro Choice obviously) brought up to me the point that bacteria is life. Why do we get to use
Websters dictionary defines abortion as “:a medical procedure used to end a pregnancy and cause the death of the fetus. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/abortion) Abortion is wrong and should be abolished. If we kill criminals for killing people why dont we kill people for killing babies? Abortion should not be allowed for any reason in todays society because its like killing a person killing is wrong everyone can agree on this. I am going to tell you why abortion should be illegal in the united States and especialy everywhere
people. My mother wanted me to become a doctor because it is a well paying
Reason to listen to you: Up until fifteen years ago, I never thought I would be a victim of domestic violence. There was no way I was going to allow anyone put their hands on me. As the outsider you hear stories
“Adopting one child won 't change the world: but for that child, the world will change.” (Unknown)(Buzzle.com). Adoption can take place in multiple shapes, forms, and fashions. You can adopt from a local adoption agency, or adopt from an orphanage half way around the world. You can adopt a child whose parents are no longer living, or you could adopt from a young mother who is not ready to raise a child. You can adopt one child who has touched your heart from an orphanage in Uganda, or a set of triplets being moved around from house to house in foster care. There are still further motivations and reasons for adopting. What if you and your spouse are unable to become pregnant? The desire to be parents does not diminish with the lack of
Most children seem to have ideas of what they would like to be when they grow up. The average person walking into any kindergarten class today would find future teachers, lawyers, doctors, nurses, astronauts, firefighters, and ballerinas; the list is endless. I never had the chance to even dream about what I wanted to be when I grew up and was given little chance to develop my own tastes and ideas towards this goal. I spent my childhood trying to be the good example to my younger brother and sister that my father demanded in his letters. All the while I was hoping and praying that my mother and father would get back together. The only thing I knew was being a mom and that is what I thought I wanted to be.
A little background history of the urgency this book places in my heart towards the broken. I grew up in a single parent home, my mom divorced my adulterous abusive father after she (and inadvertently us) experienced some injurious abuse leaving her hospitalized. This was just the beginning of the violence I would experience and see as a ‘women’ in this world. Now a child of a single parent home, the violence was turned towards me, first starting with my brother’s endless abuse, not your average sibling rivalry, rather pretending to drown me, suffocate me, sitting on me. As my brother became harder to control, it was my mom’s abuse towards the two of us physical, mental and the neglect. As my mother’s boyfriend moved in with us, then begin more of the abuse
We encountered emotional abuse watching my mother get traumatized by her boyfriend. My sister and I feared my mother’s life for 10 years. He started off as a nice person then switched gradually. I remember this day as if it was yesterday when my mother was screaming, I jumped up to find her, and she was beaten and bruised. My sister and I got involved; he threw my sister over the table and me into a wall. I got up and fought until the police came to arrest him. The day he left a weight was lifted off our shoulders. We felt secure and safe that day, we no longer had to worry or fear leaving the house without our
Sex is dirty. Sex is kinda gross. Sex is the nastiest thing I do on a regular basis that is pretty dirty and messy and overall unclean. But that 's okay, because that 's what happens when you strip down the human body and start poking at its organs. Even alone, in your own home, when no one is looking, there is so much stuff that comes out of a body. There are so many flaws that we can see. There are aches and pains, there are bumps and bruises, there are boogers and blood. We cannot stop the flow of tears, the stench of sweat, the growth of hair.
Teen pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) have become a major issue in the United States. One reason is that many young people lack the knowledge and resources they need to protect themselves from pregnancy and/or sexually transmitted diseases. In fact, teenage mothers have stated that the education provided to them did not prepare them for the possible repercussions of unprotected sex. The result of this lack of accountability, whether in the home or at school, has aided in the rise in teen pregnancy and STDs. In order for teen pregnancy and Sexually Transmitted Disease rates to decrease, schools must implement abstinence-plus education.
A. Attention Getter: The amount of teenagers that get pregnant around the age of 15 through 17 is quite concerning. Even though most Teenage Pregnancies are unintentional, it still means that there are chances of them becoming pregnant.
My educational journey has been like a roller coaster. I have been in the worst spot of my life time. Where I hate going to school but, also think about my father education. My career goal is one of my most important in my life to better myself than I am today tomorrow I will better than yesterdays.
As time goes on, teen pregnancy is becoming more and more common throughout the world. So many people frown upon this whole idea. Such people act as if the teenage parents’ world is going to come to an end. Although these kids’ life is going to be making a big turn, there are many of them who are mature enough to take on the responsibilities of a baby.