My Life Story

MY LIFE STORY


This is a story about my life and how I have changed me to be the person I am today.

When my brother and I were five years old our father took us away from our mother. every time our mother found us our father kept moving us around, but by the time we turned seven years old this is when my childhood was taken away from me.

When one of my dad's friends took away my virginity and my self-esteem. How did he do this is when we were living on the beach shack down Long Point.

He took me for a ride in his car one day to the sand hills. he then parked his car and then he sexually assaulted me. after he was finished he left me where he took me.

Not long after that my father and stepmother found me. dad asked me if his friend hurt me I said yes. my dad did not say anything. he kept on driving. he didn't even report it to the police. all he could do was not care.

At eight years old we were still living down at Long Point. there was another of dad's friend now living with us. one night I was sleeping in my room. all of a sudden I felt something moving around in my bed. it was my dad's friend trying to touch me.

Luckily my brother woke up. he then quickly left the room. I was too scared to go back to sleep again. I told my father but he did again not care.

I remember a couple days later my twin brother tried to cheer me up by teaching me how to ride my first bike and that day he never gave up on me until I got the hang of riding a bike.


As time went by as I grew up to fourteen years old, I got hit by kettle cords, wooden spoons and a belt for no reason. I was always good, never naughty, that's why I always hid in my room a lot.

Two weeks after that I got to meet my mother for the first time. as soon as I saw her, I gave her a big hug. I didn't want to let her go.

But I had to go back home with my father. after that day I was wanting to be with mum. I was not allowed to so I had to put up with my father and his friends drinking and I was afraid I was going to get hurt again by his friends.

When I turned sixteen I had enough and I ran away from home. I ended up staying at one of my friend’s house with her and her mother.

Later that night my dad sent some of his female friends around to find me and try to convince me to go back home but I refused to. I told them why I don't want to go home but they said my dad is a good man. I told them that's what you may think. then they left. I was happy they did, so I stayed at my friend’s house for a little while.

At seventeen I got my own house. I was so happy that finally something good was happening to my life, but I was wrong about that.

I ended up making friend's with the wrong people. I started drinking and smoking pot and having sex with people I didn't care about. I was heading so far down the wrong path so I decided to move away from these people.

I just turned nineteen years old when I met a guy I liked very much. we moved in together. the relationship was going great. a couple months later I find out I was pregnant I told my partner. at that time he told me to get an abortion. I told him no. he was OK with that so we moved to Rockingham to our new place with our new son. everything was going good until I let my best friend move in with us.

Not long after my son turned one years old, one morning I caught my partner in the lounge room having sex with my best friend, so that day I could not handle what I saw, I ran outside in to the alley way. I tried to kill myself, but I couldn't.

I rang my mother to come and pick me and my son up. we stayed at my mum's house for a little while then my son and I got our own house in Orelia.

I met my new partner. he was so good to me and my son. a year later we got married, moved to Gosnells. we were so much in love until three years into our marriage he decided to cheat on me. that's when I left him and moved to Maylands, where my cousin lives. this is where I started on using speed. at that time I was lost and confused, there is when I had to make a choice to let my son live with his dad until I got my life back on track. it took me a while to get away from the bad influences around me so one day I woke up and said, I have to get out of here, so I did.

I then moved to Fremantle Ocean View Lodge. it was good for me. there I met my first true love. he was sweet, romantic and very caring. from that day on I was so very happy I have never felt so happy in my life until I met him.

We decided to move to East Perth. we started living together there a month after we moved there. one morning he left me a rose and never come back. I was so scared and alone.

So I moved in to my uncle's house for a short time where I met another guy. he was sweet and kind. we started dating and three months into our relationship I fell pregnant. I told him and he said to have abortion, I refused, so it was ok with him as our relationship grew.

We moved in together to Cannington and there I started going to tafe doing the now course up in Belmont. I ended up going in to early labour at twenty seven weeks pregnant so I was rushed to hospital. I had to stay in there for two weeks.

We moved to Welsh pool were I had my twins. one of each. we were so happy with our little ones. but then later that same year my partner was not coming home after work until late every night and went out a lot.

I started thinking he may be cheating on me but on valentine's day he ended it with me. I was so hurt. I rang mum to get the kids and I.

I got a house for me and my children in Warnbro. we had a new start. I was happy to just have my children. I started them in day care so I could keep the house clean, look for jobs and I have time out.

My life was going good again without a partner. I was living at the house for three years until the owner kept putting the rent up, so we moved out to my mother's house again.


Now I am happy now because my kids are in year two and I am going to tafe doing the now course again, it is helping me and I have met so many lovely women there, and I am learning a lot more to get back in the workforce and to achieve my goal as to work in water culture.

The is what has happened to me, and there are blanks I cannot remember but hopefully one day I will be able to remember the rest of my life as I have forgotten so much.



Written by Sharon Pajich
Age 36