Family
When ‘I don’t’ comes after ‘I do’
When I first met my husband, Michael, things were a bed of roses. We both suited each other perfectly and we could see our future was brighter than ever — that was until he started having trust issues with me because I had a crowd of friends.
Off the rails and I couldn’t care less
A big family doesn’t always mean a happy family. I can vouch for that. Having four brothers and four sisters meant we were always competing. Ice cream for one of us meant ice cream for all of us.
How do you compete with a porn star?
The murmuring I hear downstairs gets louder and louder until the words are unmistakable, and the house echoes with insults.
The definition of monster? My husband!
“I gulped down a box of tablets that I had in the cupboard and stopped eating for two weeks straight.” — Guida tells the sad reality of how far she went, as she couldn’t take pain she felt within her marriage.
“This means war!”
I am one of 14 children, and in the families of my brothers and sisters there was always tragedy, misfortune and sadness.
“Are you going to kill me in front of the kids?”
Fast-forward to the present and we meet Verena Matthews, a mother of five: three girls and two boys. Her children are strong, determined and confident and bear no scars of the tragedy that was destined to destroy them.
Why I believe it only takes one
When my dad contacted me on the night before he committed suicide, telling me that he would always love me, it stuck in my mind for years to come.
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