Saturday, March 31, 2018

I Was An Emotional Prostitute Part 2


I think there are a few lucky people who look back on childhood as some of the most wonderful, carefree days of their lives. I, unfortunately am not one of those people.
My name is Mayone (my own) and this is my story.
I was born in the mid 60's to a couple named Von and Mary. They separated and divorced before I was two while mother was pregnant with my younger brother, Mike. My father disappeared. I didn’t see him again for over 30 years.
A few years later mother married a man named Don. Several months later, she had one last child, a boy named Marvin Wayne after his paternal grandfather. He was never called by his first name though; we always called him Wayne. I loved helping mother take care of him whenever possible.
For a few years, things were fine. Then one day, Don stopped me in the hallway, held my face, and pushed his tongue into my mouth while kissing me. I was disgusted at the time. Even now as I write this, I can feel how disgusting it felt to me. Thankfully, it only happened the one time.
 Another time, Don came to my younger brother, Mike and I one day to ask if we wanted to learn a new game. We asked him what new game. He refused to tell us until we said “yes” or “no.” I agreed right away, but my brother was hesitant so, I pleaded with him until he agreed also. Don grabbed six dice and said, “Come on.”
We all went into my room and Don shut the door for privacy. He then told us that in this game we were going to play, we would all roll the six dice. We could then stay with what we had, keep part of what we had and roll again or we could roll all six dice again up to two more times. The person with the lowest score had to take a piece of clothing off. In the end, when one person was completely naked, we would all roll the dice again, if the naked person still rolled the lowest score, the person with the highest score, got to “have their way” with the loser.

I remember losing a lot it seemed and Don was usually the winner at those times. He would then have me lie on my bed while he used a vibrator on my vagina. It always “tickled” in such a way as to make me writhe across the bed. I remember liking the sensation yet wanting to get away from it.
I should make one thing clear here; the vibrator Don used on me was not the kind you find in today’s sex shops. It was one made by a company for the specific purpose of relieving pain by “massaging” the aching part of your body. It had a tan plastic case and was about 6'l x 4'h x 2'w with a metal top, which made me think of a double humped camel.
I’m sure Mike was the lowest roller on more than one occasion; however, I don’t remember what happened to him. On one occasion Don was the loser and I was the winner. I had seen mother hovering over him one morning as he lay on their bed, so I decided to imitate her. I had him lay on my bed, climbed up over him and rubbed myself against him. I didn’t do it for very long as I didn’t really know what I was doing and I got bored with it. That was the closest we ever came to having actual intercourse at that time.
This must have gone on for several weeks if not a few months before mother found out what was happening. She learned about “The Game” when I was cleaning my room one night. I found the cord for the vibrator in my room and went to put it away. As I walked through the living room with it, mother saw it and asked me why I had it. That’s when I reluctantly told her about “The Game” we played in my room while she was at work. She told me that what had happened was wrong. When she saw that this upset me, she also told me it wasn’t my fault. It was Don’s, as he knew better. Shortly after this they separated, then he filed for divorce.

Once the story came out about the game and Don’s abuse of us, I didn’t feel totally comfortable with him anymore. One day shortly after that happened, he was sitting in a chair in the middle of the living room and asked me to come to him. I shook my head “no.” He insisted that I come to him and promised not to hurt me. I reluctantly walked over and stood next to him. He put his arm around me and talked to me briefly before letting me go. I scampered away as quickly as possible.
Don also physically abused me as a child. On more than one occasion he used a tree branch to beat me with when I did something wrong. Once he even made me go out and take a switch off the tree. I spent so long trying to do it, that he came out to get a different branch.
On another occasion Don beat me with a stick and then put it next to my dresser telling me as he did so that he was going to spank me again in the morning for the same offense! He asked me to remind him. I nodded my head in agreement. The next morning I saw the stick and ignored it. A few days later as I was cleaning my room, I quietly took the stick outside and threw it away. He never mentioned it again.
There is one incident in particular which stands out. I went to an elementary school, which was approximately five blocks from our house. I walked to and from school every day. Don always told me to come straight home after school and I always did. I just wasn’t always as quick about it as he thought I should be. He expected me home from school within 15 minutes of school ending. I was often late as I always walked home with friends and we would laugh and talk all the way to my house, then they would go on to their homes. I was late so many times that Don finally threatened to chase me to and from school spanking me all the way if I was late one more time. Shortly after that I was late coming home again and he did exactly as he’d threatened to; chase me to and from school, spanking me all the way. In later years, I started thinking that the punishment was excessive for the crime and talked to my mother about it. She didn’t agree as I had come home late so many times. I realize now that it was public humiliation, which is wrong under any circumstances.

Saturday, March 24, 2018

I Was An Emotional Prostitute Part 1


I AM...

I am my life experience
I am a child
conceived to meet my mother’s need for unconditional love
I am a baby girl, loved by her father
I am a toddler, abandoned by her father

I am a young girl
sexually and physically abused by her mother’s second husband
Then raped by a young man she had a crush on

I am that same young girl
with emotions and sensitivities I don’t understand
and am not allowed to express

I am
a young woman growing into womanhood   
                                               without the guidance of a loving father
and with a mother who would control me


I am a young woman
who wants to try her wings
only to have them continually clipped

I am a rebellious young woman
constantly fighting
fighting for the right to be me
fighting for the right to explore the world around me
and find my place in it

I am a woman unsure of herself
and her place in this world

I am a woman in pain
from wounds that cannot be seen
with the natural eye

I am a woman
only now
learning who I am
and what I really want in this life

I am a single mom

who must cope with the day to day rearing of my son
while I work to find myself and become emotionally whole


I am also a woman in love
with a man I cannot have and am no longer sure I want

What you have just read is the introduction to the story about my life. Over the next several weeks, I will be posting parts of my story. It may not be easy to read, but it wasn't easy for me to write. At times I felt like I was writing nothing more than a tell all. I finally realized that I had to. If I didn't people wouldn't understand why I needed the emotional healing that only God can do.

I'm not sure how long it will take to tell my story in this format, but I expect a year or more.

What I'll share is the truth of my life as I remember it, emotions and all.

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Can’t Teach Your Children?


            I recently had a conversation with a man I’ve known for most of my life in which he said that you can’t teach your children anything. To prove his point, he told a story about his daughter and teaching her to play piano.

            He’d hired a piano teacher for her and told the teacher that he not only wanted her to teach his daughter how to play, but he wanted the teacher to show his daughter how musical chords are built. Well, the teacher taught his daughter how to play, but when it became clear that she wouldn’t teach how musical chords are built, he fired her.

            He told the next piano teacher the same thing. He not only wanted her to teach his daughter how to play piano, but he wanted her to teach her how chords are built. She too, failed at the task.  About the time he was going to fire her, she came to him and said that she was moving. He was so grateful, that he let her stay on till she left.

            One day while he was at work, he came up with a way to show his daughter how to build the music chords, so he wrote it down and took it home. That night, he walks in and sees his daughter at the dining room table. He put the piece of paper down next to her, she looked up and said, “Dad! I’m doing my math homework.”

            He then goes into the other room, puts on headphones, and tunes up his guitar. When he’s finished tuning his guitar, he takes off the headphones and starts playing so that his daughter will hear him. After a few minutes she comes out and he’s able to get his point across about how musical chords are built.

            He ended his story by reiterating that you can’t teach your children anything.

            If I’d been thinking well at the time, I could have asked him who potty trained his daughter or taught her manners.

            I also could have proved him wrong on the spot, but I know he wouldn’t have listened to me and it would have caused unnecessary drama for me to do so.

            Here’s what he did wrong. Instead of respecting what his daughter was doing, homework, he insisted she pay attention to what he wanted to teach her. Had he respected what she was doing in the moment, she probably would have come to him on her own when she was done with her math homework and discussed the music chords he’d put in front of her.

            What he taught her in addition to the music chords, was that what she was doing was not as important as what he wanted to teach her right that minute. I find this ironic given that in the discussions we’ve had about education over the years, he’s made it clear that education is a high priority where he’s concerned. He even tried to convince his son to go for a Master’s degree after this young man had earned an A.A. while attending high school and getting straight “A’s” then going on to earn a Bachelor’s degree in his chosen field.

            So, because he had to “grab” his daughter’s attention and he couldn’t convince his son to get a Master’s degree, he thinks you can’t teach your children anything. He’s wrong. The moment we become a parent, we become our child’s first teacher.

            Think not? Think about this. Who teaches your child to walk? To talk? To go potty? Unless you can afford to hire a nanny or nurse, you do.

            There’s also the fact that we teach our children about how to live, even if only by example. For instance, when we hold our children and comfort them, we’re teaching them how to love and that we love them. I also read recently that babies who are comforted and held when they cry will better learn how to deal with their emotions than those who are allowed to “cry it out.” So, in essence, from the time they’re babies, how we take care of them teaches them how to handle things or not.

            Our children learn how to do so many things simply by watching what we do. I remember learning how to hold my silverware by observing how my parents held theirs.

            I know my son learned how to weed a garden by working side by side with me.

            More importantly, though, we teach our children about what to expect in life and relationships by how we behave.

            Think about this for a moment. If our children see parents who love each other and them, they’ll seek those kinds of relationships for themselves as they get older.

            If they see their parent’s abusing each other, chances are good they’ll be abusers or become victims of abusers in their own relationships.

            We also teach them basic life skills. Things like respecting other people. Good manners, such as “don’t talk with your mouth full” or “don’t cut in front of others.”

            Hopefully we teach them compassion by showing compassion for others. By this, I mean how do we treat those less fortunate than ourselves? Do we look down on them? Or do we offer them a kind word or a smile?

            We can’t ever forget that as parents, our children are watching everything we do and learning from us. We are their first example of how to conduct themselves in this world.