Here I am again, Hi my name is Bridget, I am 22 years old, and a psychology student from Cape

Town, South Africa.

What a story to be told... Let's start at the beginning.

I grew up in a small town, where there wasn't much to do, when it was okay for the kids to run in the street and play outside until midnight, the good days. I have 2 siblings, an older brother, Max, and an older Sister Kim. Yeah, I know what you are thinking, this is probably just a story of the youngest child complaining that she always gets what she wants, let me help you out there, its not.

When I was young, I never knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grow up, is it a teacher or

Engineer or lawyer or something. It changed every day with the mood, anyways, I finally decided

that I wanted to be a psychologist at the age of 20, I know right. Took me some time. It was when I

had to go to a mental hospital that everything changed for me, I met new people, broken people.

And the day I left the mental hospital there was a girl Suzy that said to me "You saved my life" and

those words still touches me today. Growing up as the youngest wasn't always easy, yeah somethings were a bit easier for me than my siblings but getting all the hate and all the bulling from them, wasn't always easy on me or my mental health, I grew up as a very shy and introverted person, still today, I struggle socially, and I don't have many friends. The worst ever conversation I had was with my best friend when I met her for the first time, she is from another country and her parents owns an amazing clothing store, so I started interning there and her mother sent me a message saving that they are out of the country I must take care of the shop, and there is where anxiety hit me, I don't know anything about a business, and I message their daughter Selina asking her where her parents are, so she told me it was a prank and we started talking from there. That next year my best friend arrived from England, I decided to message her and meet up at the

shop and we can have a chat, it was the most awkward conversation ever, we both are shy, and we both are introverts. So long story short, we became best friends.

In school I never thought about having a boyfriend or thinking about relationships and let's be honest I was one ugly duckling. So, during my last year of school, I met this amazing guy, fell in love and it was just the greatest time of my life. It was something out of a movie, a relationship every young girl dreams about. He was much older than what I was at the time, he would spoil me by dropping off flowers and lunch at school and waiting for me to finish school to go do something together. He would call me many times during the day, pick me up from school, take me away for weekends and he made me feel special. At this point, my life couldn't be more perfect than what it is currently. I have a cute boyfriend that loves me, I have the most amazing best friend. Just perfect. I thought to myself (but I didn't know what is coming next). All to be revealed soon

Relationships has never really been in my mind, I think because of the way I grew up, seeing how some of my uncles treat their wives, and because of that I decided to be single. It was a very traumatic time seeing how the men treated the women in my family. I never want to be treated that way.

Growing up I never knew my real father, I always dreamt about him and always wanted to know who he is and how he would look like and how different my life would've been.