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  • #122867
    Rangel
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    Hi everyone, first of all I wish you a nice day and thank you for coming to read my story.
    I’m not an english native speaker, I’m brazilian, so please forgive me for some grammar mistakes here.

    I was born in Northeast brazilian and lived in my city until September 2016. On that month, I had to move to Amazon area, to study Medicine in an university there, because is my dream to become a doctor and I was approved only to study there. I was kinda scared about the idea to start to live alone and in a place with so different in terms of culture from my birthtown, but yes I went. My mom went with me to stay there for 3 days to help me organizing my stuff.

    I started to live with a doctor (who comes from Honduras) and a student girl from my classroom in an apartment. In the beginning, I thought they were too adorable persons and that we could get along well together along the time. In the same day I started to live there, after I put all my things and furniture, the doctor woman said to my mom “Hi, I just wanted to know if there is a problem if my husband come here to visit me just for few days”, then my mom said “No problem at all, my husband also wants to come here to visit our daughter for few days some time”. Plus she said right after that she would be my teacher in the university, something I didn’t know and at the same time displeased me in terms of professional/privacy ways.

    One week after, her husband arrived and that was kinda uncomfortable in terms of my privacy, because me and the other student girl shared a bathroom in the common area, while the doctor woman had her own bathroom inside her room. Well, also I couldn’t stay in pyjamas inside the house and feel as comfortable as before. Three weeks already passed and he was still there. So, there was a day between those when the doctor woman asked if me and the other girl would stay in the apartment until February and I said “yes” and the other girl as well. Then, few days after she said suddenly “Oh, I’m looking for a job for my husband, hope we find one temporary for few months, until February”. I was so surprised! Me and the other girl, we were paying everything shared between 3 persons, food, energy, water, rental, etc and started to be so expensive since that man arrived, how could she lie to my mom even???

    Then I asked to the other girl if she wanted to move with me to another place and she said “I can’t pay to move my furniture to another place right now”. I could understand her and started to look for another place to live.

    The student girl said to the doctor woman that I wanted to move from there, then the doctor woman started to be craaazy. In 16th october was the birthday of my best friend/cousin (she was into my life since always), unfortunately she died in a crash car accident on May 2016 with her mom, my lovely aunt. I was crying a lot over my bed, didn’t want to talk with anyone else on that day. In that same day, the doctor woman came to my room, started to beat my door strongely, I opened and she said that she wanted to talk with me about important issues. I didn’t know what it was about, just said “Sorry, I’m not feeling ok to talk right now. I’m in mourning”. She didn’t care and came inside my room and started to say “You might be not an adult, but me and another girl are and we have honor, something that you should have. How do you promise to stay here until February and you won’t? Do you think is fair live us with things to pay inside the house? If you leave, you will pay the consequences.” Then she returned to her room and I started to freak out, thinking “what that crazy woman can do against me?”. She started to sent messages to my mom saying a bunch of lies, she said that I wanted to live alone to call my boyfriend to live with me (my boyfriend doesn’t live in Amazon) and said that I don’t have honor and I will pay for my words. My mom started to distrust on me cause of her (she already doesn’t support my relationship because my boyfriend is a foreigner, she discriminates me a lot saying that I’m even a gold digger, classic bias about latin girls) and also was afraid about those consequences that the woman mentioned, so she payed a huge quantity of money to that doctor woman.

    Imagine if you are inside a room with 3 persons and they behave like crazy teenagers, don’t clean anything inside the house, wake up late to work/study, drink almost everyday and arrive from parties at 3am at home doing noises. I was going crazy about overall of it.

    Plus my classroom there are a lot of gossips. When I said to them that I would take with me few souvenirs from my birthtown, as a nice welcoming gesture, they said “oh, she already wants to buy us with gifts and be friend of everyone?”. It completely disappointed me, how people can have such a mind so mean…

    The student girl and the doctor woman started to join strenghts against me, the doctor woman started to invite the student girl to have dinner with her everynight even her friends from classroom, after what happened in 16th october.

    About my classroom, gossips were everywhere against me, saying that I was too stuck-up, because during few classes I was explaining few terms from latin words in Medicine to portuguese and I was helping a teacher to translate few things from English to Portuguese in his scientific project (English speakers here are too rare and yes I know I have a loooot to develop about it ^^)

    Even when I went to a house of two girls for a day, they said to all the classroom that I ate everything of their house as an animal, that I opened the fridge all the time (Yes, they would let me die thirsty… ridiculous) and was too shameful for me.

    By the way, my dad has prostata cancer and I even told it to the doctor woman and the student girl. But it doesn’t matter to them, the doctor woman still asked that money and threated me. Guess what? The doctor woman did a party with my classroom, she paid everything. Ops… my dad. Now we don’t have money enough to his treatment.

    I left from there and currently I’m in my birthtown. Mom is blaming me for spent a lot of money there and now we don’t have conditions to pay dad’s treatment, she said “I trusted on you. Now you destroyed our lives” and she is all the time saying that I want to marry to don’t have to study, even is calling me “bitch”. My relationship has nothing to do with what happened.

    Plus Amazon area is too dangerous, many cases of sexual abuse and since people notice immediately that I’m not from there because of my physical aspects, I was too vulnerable. Even a man from a delivery food said that next time he would take off my clothes. I was nights without sleep because of that, if I would tell to the cops of course he would find a way to be revenged. Those things about law there are too weak.

    Thank you for read all of that, please I need some advice to help me to overcome everything of it. I’m feeling alone, without strenghts and miss my best friend a lot. Looks like everybody is against me, even my family. Thankfully my boyfriend is supporting me, which comforts me a lot.

    #122881
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear rrangel:

    Your story depicts a despicable, aggressive, dishonest woman doctor who took advantage of you, threatening you and your mother, for financial benefit and she succeeded in doing that.

    Your mother, in turn, submitted to that woman, paying her money on top of the money already spent financing that woman’s husband. And then, your mother believed that woman’s lies, turning against you and calling you names. She doesn’t like your boyfriend and is harassing you over that relationship.

    You did the right thing to move away from Honduras, away from that woman and the people she turned against you. Next right thing for you to do, it seems to me, is to move away from your mother. Maybe join your boyfriend who is supportive of you, join him in his location…?

    anita

    #122886
    Rangel
    Participant

    Hi dear anita

    Thank you for your reply. Actually I was in Macapá (a brazilian city in Amazon area) and the doctor woman comes from Honduras.

    Yes, in those moments we try to find what is wrong on us, you know and try to understand for me becomes worse, I’m trying to keep on my mind good thoughts and thankfully here in my birthtown I have my friends to count in.

    Yes, we think in something like that soon, hope it works within a year. To move to another brazilian city together or his country, till there I need to join my strenghts. Want to start yoga classes to stay relieved daily and work in my gratefulness

    #122887
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Dear rrangel:

    You are welcome. Your plan to move together with your supportive boyfriend, to another city in Brazil or to his country, sounds good to me. You need support, not enemies. As long as your mother is hurting you, as long as anyone is hurting you, the right thing is to move away from that person.

    Hope your yoga provides you with relief. Post anytime.

    anita

    #122888
    Rangel
    Participant

    Dear anita,

    Yes, I totally agree. Many blessings for you!

    #122891
    Anonymous
    Guest

    Thank you, rrangel. Post anytime.
    anita

    #122961
    Inky
    Participant

    Hi rrangel,

    I’m late for replying, but if you read this, may I say:

    I totally agree with anita. Move out of your mother’s house even if it’s with the boyfriend. If you are old enough to study to become a doctor, you are old enough to get married (if your relationship leads to that one day) and to whom.

    Another thing about parents and authority figures: When things aren’t going well some will pick on the easiest one to pick on. She was afraid of the doctor woman because it looks like she was desperate for you to get your degree. Then when it all went south it was more convenient for her to “believe” the doctor woman than you. Her anger towards you is that she feels powerless and you are now the target of choice.

    I’m sorry this happened to you. I wish you all the best for the future!!

    Blessings,

    Inky

    #123193
    Rangel
    Participant

    Dear Inky,

    Thank you for read and share your words with me. Yes, actually often happens threats from my mom to me about too little things, when she wants to put me under her control. Plus I have a 6 years old brother who has hyperactivity, she blames me many times when he breaks something for example. He is overweight and don’t want to eat fruit nor healthy food, not at all. So, she blames me as well for that situation, I try to help him offering healthier stuff, but he starts to scream and so on. Currently I’m working in my gratefulness to transfer it to others around… Despite is too hard daily to deal with such things, there are still strenghts to be grateful for.

    So for while I’m waiting a result from a test to a Medicine university and I will get it in 19th jan. If it doesn’t work, I will prepare myself this year again to be approved and will spend as less time as possible at home, teaching math classes for highschool students nearby my home. Then I will take the next step, we (me and my mom) need a time apart to work in our relationship better and take learning from it.

    Thank you once more time and wish you happy holidays!

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