Good day everyone. I do not know how to start writing this whole thing because I am not a storyteller. I am an introverted person who likes being on her own and minding her own business. I am a 23-year-old girl who graduated in 2023, and I have been going from job to job trying to raise money to start a skill and all that. The jobs I have done have somehow favoured me or thereabout. To go straight to the point, my story is based on family. My mum has made life like a living hell for me since I graduated from school. Sometimes I wonder if she truly is my mother or if I am an adopted child. She always complains about us to her family. So many kinds of insults I have endured all my life. She does not even want me to have a good life, always comparing me with my mates and their children who give money to their parents. She always complains that we do not do anything for her, like chores and stuff, and I swear to God Almighty I am literally like a slave in this house. I have two younger brothers, and before they were born I had already been staying in her shop. Even when my elder sister was in boarding school during our teenage years,
I was the only person at home because I went to a government school, so I did all the work until my sister came to assist when she was on holiday. I graduated in 2023 and did my clearance on February 25 last year because I did not have enough money to finish earlier. I paused and completed it last year, and I am waiting for my name to be out on the Senate list so I can go for service. But this woman has made life unbearable for me in this house, saying I forged my results. Even when I gave her my course adviser’s number and the man that mobilised the whole NYSC process, she still would not let me breathe. I really do not know what to do or how to move forward from here because my elder sister is pregnant without marriage because of the way she pushed her out, and I think she wants the same for me. I do not even ask her for money since my school days were over because I know I am old enough to start doing something for myself, and even if the country is hard, I know I am trying my possible best to survive. Even focusing on my relationship is hard for me because I am not always lucky when it comes to it.
I feel like if my own mother is always saying I am a cursed child, then truly I am. I used to stream Pastor Jerry Eze live by 7 am, but I stopped because when I see the things my mother does and she still goes to church every Sunday, I am so pained and heartbroken. She values other people’s opinions over our lives. Since I was in school, she never attended my matriculation or came for my sign-out or convocation because she said Asaba was too far for her. When we moved to ABK because my school campus was sold to Dennis Osadebey, we moved from Anwai campus to ABK, she still did not come for my sign-out, but she went to her sister’s child’s matriculation in Benin. When I heard that, I was so pained, but I swallowed everything and continued to do what I could do best. Now I am struggling in my workspace where I am learning, and my teacher told me to buy things for my work, and I do not even have anyone to call for help. I am cutting the story short because if I start reliving my childhood traumas, I will not be able to think well or do anything. With tears in my eyes and a heavy heart, I just want you all to please advise me on steps to take, and I promise to make it worth your time. Thank you.
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