Hi, my name is Lila, and I’m working to rebuild my life after many years of family abuse.

For a long time, I’ve lived in an environment filled with verbal and emotional abuse. Recently, things escalated. I was physically threatened, and my work laptop, which I rely on for my job and school, was destroyed. Without it, I can’t keep up with my responsibilities or continue building a better future.

I had a situation today with my sister, and it started out so minor and escalated very quickly. She said something to me, and I told her no problem, I’ll just go in my room. As I went in the room, she proceeded to get upset because she said I had an attitude and I always have an attitude whenever she tells me something. I explained to her that I did not have an attitude and I would just go in my room because I didn’t want to add fuel to the flame. As I’m in my room, she’s yelling, calling me all types of curse words, telling me to suck her D, and being so disgusting over nothing that was not even that serious. She proceeded to come in my room, get in my face, yell in my face, start spitting while she’s yelling, and putting her finger in my face. Of course, I yelled back to defend myself, but I still did not get up. She felt like she wasn’t getting the reaction out of me that she always wants to get out of me, so she grabbed my work laptop. She knows I use that laptop for everything my work, my school that’s how I’m able to contribute to the bills. So she grabs it, and when she grabs it, I stand up because at that point, I don’t know if she’s going to try to break it or what she plans to do. So I am trying to get my laptop from her. She throws it on the floor. Immediately, I reacted I pushed her back, not a hard push, but just to kinda push her to keep her from stepping on my laptop because I need that for work. She didn’t like that I pushed her back from my laptop, so she started to push me, and we began wrestling. It lasted for about two minutes. Then she started threatening me, telling me to get out of her house. She grabbed a pair of scissors, and she tried to stab me with the scissors repeatedly. I tried to grab my phone and call the police because I didn’t know if she was going to kill me or what, and she was acting this way in front of her children. Then she proceeds to grab my phone from me. As she’s walking out of the room, she grabs my laptop and breaks it in half. At that point, my heart sank, and I was just done. She knows I have nowhere to go. Where I live does not offer many services for single people. A few months ago, I was not able to work, and my car was repossessed because I couldn’t pay the bill. I have tolerated her verbal abuse in her physical abuse since I was a child. She has always been a big bully and never in 1 million years. I would think at my adult age. I still have to put up with you being abusive she used to take anger, management classes, but she stopped those. I don’t know what to do anymore. I just can’t believe that this is my life at this point. I’m just locked in my room, haven’t been able to shower or use the bathroom or anything because I’m afraid to go out there and face her.

I’m asking for help because I need a fresh start, a safe place to live, a replacement laptop, and reliable transportation so I can support myself independently.

This is my real life, and it’s not easy to share. Every donation, no matter how small, brings me closer to safety, stability, and independence. Your support gives me hope and helps me create a brighter future.

Lila