Status Updates From Disgraced

But things are going to be different for Jasmine and me. I am going to set her the best possible example and show her just what a young woman can achieve in the world if she sets her heart on it. Whatever has happened in the past, I am determined that I will never disgrace her again.

I wonder now how many women allow abusive relationships to continue in the vain hope that things will get better, blaming some external factor like debt rather than laying the blame where it should be laid, at the feet of their violent men.

The Asian men were nearly always the most chauvinistic and unpleasant clients. I suppose they automatically looked down on anyone who did this kind of work.

so like actually, why are men paying for these services if they’re going to look down on women? any chance to degrade women i swear.

Because they were boys, he couldn’t accept that any of this was my brothers’ own fault. Most of the time he blamed Mum for not bringing them up properly, although all through their marriage she had only ever done what he told her.

Maybe deep down he believed he was giving us certain morals and rules to live by, fulfilling his duty as a father, but just didn’t know how to express himself properly, always choosing to shout and hit rather than sit down and talk.

Perhaps if I had had a better relationship with Mum I would have felt I could speak up, but she never made me feel that I was special in any way, so I assumed that all I deserved was to be groped and pinched and beaten.

Colleague lent me this book....dug it out the storage of his mums house so has to be read.