I was born and raised in essex, you could say i had a troubled childhood, a violent father, i always seemed to be living under the threat of a bloody good hiding for something or other. The beatings were real enough but to me this was normal, so i don,t understand it when other people try to blame the mistakes of their lives in the present on what happened to them in the past. That to me is a cop out, i used my experiences to make sure that my children diddn,t go through, that what i had endured, i broke the cycle of abuse and i am proud of that. Ta more...
