Women’s Chronicles

Sixty-two-year-old Debra Davis is a woman of many stories. She does not look at you while she speaks.

“I agree that when you grow older that you have to somehow get past your childhood hardships and just live because if you hold on to your childhood trauma then you might never be able to live in the true sense.

Almost five years ago when this column first appeared, it detailed a battered woman’s struggle with a system that was not friendly to women like her, and dealing with her abuser whose only intent was for her to return to their matrimonial home.

From all accounts a beautiful soul died last week by suicide.

“It is not easy being a security guard in this country right now, especially since people have to show the COVID vaccine card.

“I looking fuh a new job because I had to just leave the job in the market because I didn’t able with what you have to go through there.

World Suicide Prevention Day is observed annually on September 10. It is organised by the International Association for Suicide Prevention and endorsed by the World Health Organization and represents a global commitment to focus attention on suicide prevention.

“It was a trying 12 years but you know if I had to do it all over again I would do it because even though she never walk, never really talk and you do everything for her she was still such a beautiful child.

“For me, I want my children to go to school because it is like I losing them.

“I am planning to get married again soon and this time I want to wear a white wedding dress.

Warning: The following article contains content about sexual abuse that may trigger an anxiety response in some readers.

“I am just happy that I get to see my children and now I have them again.

“I just want to see my children. I miss them so much and it is almost two months since I have not seen them.

“I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy. Even if I don’t like somebody I wouldn’t want them to go through this pain I feeling.

“For me I don’t think school should reopen because it is not safe with COVID-19.

“Sometimes I wonder how a mother could do that to her own child.

“I really thought I was going for better, you know. It was like I was stifling here because I was not working and it was like I was going around in circles, nothing happening.

“Growing up my father was my rock. I looked up to him and it was like he could do no wrong.

Tiffeney Ageda is a woman who is living in constant fear as she said an ex-boyfriend has been stalking and harassing her even as he manipulates the system to make it appear that he is the victim.

“A lot of us don’t like to talk about it but we are at times not happy to become old.