Prologue
The Woman Nobody Understood!!
Before she became my mother, she was a girl who lost her own mother too soon.
She learned responsibility before she was ready for it. While she should have been living like a child, she was helping carry her family through life.
Then she met my father.
She fell in love. She believed marriage would give her a new beginning—a life where she could finally be happy.
But life had something else waiting for her.
After marriage, they had almost nothing. There were days when even having enough food was a struggle. Poverty slowly entered their home, and somewhere along the way, my father's attitude began to change.
The man she had loved became the man she feared.
She endured his anger, his cruelty, and his abuse.
And I watched.
As a child, I didn't understand why my mother stayed. I only knew that I hated my father for hurting her.
Years passed, and people saw only what was visible.
They never saw the girl she had been.
They never saw the responsibilities she carried.
They never saw the dreams she had before marriage.
They never saw the nights she suffered behind closed doors.
They never understood why she stayed.
But I want to tell her story.
Not because she was perfect.
Not because she was weak.
But because she was human.
She was my mother.
And perhaps, through these pages, someone will finally see the woman nobody understood.
This is her story.
And somehow, it became part of mine.
My life hasn't finished living yet.
