Friends Women’s Association OCTOBER 2024 Report
“I married an alcoholic man. He came home at midnight and beat me while I did nothing. One day he beat me when I was pregnant and I had an abortion. This abortion left scars in my heart; I didn’t want to be pregnant anymore.
Unfortunately I found myself pregnant again, and my husband married another woman whom I took as my mother. I got depressed and I looked for medication to try to abort but in vain. I planned to kill my child at birth or leave the baby in the hospital. The day I gave birth I looked at my child and I felt pity and regret. I accepted it; I decided to go home with my child.
This child reminds me at what level I am a bad mother, when I see him I feel like a criminal; I cannot forgive myself. My child is three years old, but he is always afraid when I leave him alone He does not accept and it saddens me and I feel myself guilty.
This workshop taught me that I am traumatized and that I must admit my weaknesses and agrees to begin the healing process”.
