00:00It wasn't until after I had my daughter, I kind of like mentally and physically started to separate myself from
00:09him.
00:09I told him, this is it. Like, I'm done. I'm taking the kids. I'm leaving. And you're not going to
00:16be able to stop me.
00:17He tried stopping me, but the neighbors that lived across from us ended up calling the cops.
00:22We got escorted by the police to a domestic violence shelter, and it was there that I stayed for eight
00:30months.
00:31All I remember is just, like, here I am seven months into being a single mother for the first time.
00:39Not really ever getting treatment from my postpartum depression.
00:43And I began doing what I know, my body for the means, you know, of survival.
00:50I ran back to him, which probably was the worst decision that I could have ever done.
00:56Because as soon as CPS caught wind that I had went back to them, they showed up at the house.
01:01Ended with me and him both being put in handcuffs and our kids being taken to CPS.
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