Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
"My father worked for the post office and generally he would get home around 3:30, 4 o’clock and if he didn’t, I know that he would be hanging out with his friends. He did drink and when he drank, he was not always friendly.
If I could hear whistling, I knew it could be a gentle evening. If not, I just waited to see what the evening would bring.
I was afraid and so I didn’t get to hug him or do those things that you see a lot of young girls do with their dads.
I’ve been blessed with wonderful men to enter into my life but once things seem to get a little too serious, that’s it - I’m out.
I think I feel like I might end up in a similar type of relationship, like my mom. I’ve apologized to my children for anything I may have said to them or done to them. I think I did that because that’s what I had wanted someone to do to me...to apologize.
No, no one ever apologized. But I’m okay with it, I’m okay with it."
- Faith T., #LivesofWomen
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"My father worked for the post office and generally he would get home around 3:30, 4 o’clock and if he didn’t, I know that he would be hanging out with his friends. He did drink and when he drank, he was not always friendly.
If I could hear whistling, I knew it could be a gentle evening. If not, I just waited to see what the evening would bring.
I was afraid and so I didn’t get to hug him or do those things that you see a lot of young girls do with their dads.
I’ve been blessed with wonderful men to enter into my life but once things seem to get a little too serious, that’s it - I’m out.
I think I feel like I might end up in a similar type of relationship, like my mom. I’ve apologized to my children for anything I may have said to them or done to them. I think I did that because that’s what I had wanted someone to do to me...to apologize.
No, no one ever apologized. But I’m okay with it, I’m okay with it."
- Faith T., #LivesofWomen
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Lives of Women
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