My mother asked me to make a yahoo account so I could chat to foreigners. She said that's how my aunt got a foreign husband. I was just a college freshman back then and we were going through tough times. O_o Sabi ko sa kanya di ako marunong mag yahoo.

When I was a kid she made me memorize the litany of the virgin mary. Every night there was a rosary and I shit you not, she would make me kiss the statues in the altar before going to bed. I have a phobia of statues because of this. Madalas ako managinip ng mga Jesus statue na naglalakad at hinahanap ako, freakin creepy.

Constantly nagging at me and yelling at me to help around the house. As a result, I had little time to study. She still expected me to get high marks at school. I was basically useless in her eyes and would constantly belittle me and berate me for every little thing.

There's no food in our house. I was always hungry and in order to get by, I have resorted to doing my classmates assignmenta and projects just for food. Just imagine, I'd spend the night at a classmates house, her mom would come give us snacks and tell us how proud she is because we're studying bla bla bla. Pag uwi ko sa bahay, my mother will judge me and sasabihin na nag bubulakbol ako. Sa totoo ginagawa ko lang yun para makakain.

When I got a job, she would always text me, she needs money for xyz. Every month na lang lagi. Wala man lang thank you o kumusta. I started ignoring her, moved away to different city. To this day she would still do the same thing. There are nights when I would get nightmares of her creeping into my room then choking me while asking for money.