I’m 31 years old, a wife and a mother of two boys. I’ve been on my own since I was 13 years old and had to raise my younger sister so I am no stranger when it comes to real world problem and stress.

I married my husband when I was only 16 and had our first son 3 mo shy of my 18th bday. Right after I turned 20 my husband was landed w/ a tumor in his knee causing him to lose his job. Everything started going downhill fast, leading me to make the decision to leave or stay for the betterment of our family. Our son didn’t need to see us fight since his life was stressful enough being born with clubbed feet. So long story short I left with hopes we would some day fix our marriage.

We were apart for a year and a half and in that time I ended up dating who I thought was a good friend but wasn’t. He was very abusive and forced me to get pregnant. When I had the chance to leave I left! My ex husband I reconciled when I was 4 months pregnant and he was happy to take on the roll of dad. Although he did voice the importance of his bio father being apart of his sons life if it was something that was going to be safe.

All in all we made co parenting work for 4 years until my son came home from a visit and claimed he had been being hurt by his father. Be scared I made sure to take every precaution necessary for the safety and well-being of our son. That would be the biggest mistake of my life! I ended up losing all contact with my 4 yr old son because of it!

My trauma began on 7/15/2016 when the D.A. And 6 officers kicked in my front door and grabbed me by the back of the neck while my son was latched to my chest and shoved me outside! We were all held at gun point, I was threatened with use of force if I did not give them my son! My oldest son who was 8 at the time was thrown across our lawn for trying to just say goodbye to his baby brother! I will never stop hearing my 4 yr olds screams for “MOMMY” !

Ever since that day I had to be strong for my family and fight to try and get our son back! This led me to constantly ball up al my emotion and within a very short period of time I ended up losing ALL of my hair that was so beautiful! Super long thick gorgeous hair that was past my waist! Just gone! Even 5 years later I’m still only left with less than an inch of hair on my head with patches of it still missing!

And now because I have put all my effort and money into fighting for our son we are now in state assistance and are basically flat out broke! The stress seems to always just like higher and I’m beginning to lose hope! I’ve been through wigs but only really cheap ones because I cannot afford one that won’t severely agitate my head or give me headaches! I was lucky enough to find one that was human hair but the cap construction was cheaply made and it fell apart! I now have nothing but a ball cap to wear and I have court coming up on the 27 of this month and am terrified. Im just at a loss!