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BEING ROBBED OF YOUR PRIDE



Have you ever just kept hitting a lot of bad luck, then suddenly something good finally comes along and it's so hard to believe? well after all the bad mess I been through growing up, I needed the break at happiness.

growing up my mom always kept me, and my siblings close to her but far from family. at first, I never understood why she did, but as I get older it all made sense. It's always the people closes to you that do the worst to you. January 21st was one of the most horrible days of many in my life that I will never forget. My granddad had passed away so my mom and I went to the family house to be with the family and plan his funeral. That night my mom and my aunts decided to go over to my uncle's house so that they can have a meeting, so she left me with my cousins at the family house. With our parents being gone My cousins and I decided to take advantage of the free time and watched a scary movie. That movie was so scary that we all ended up on each other cuddling and screaming our lives away lol. The eldest of us all was our male cousin who was 20 years old at the time and the only male amongst us 3 females, we cuddled under him whenever we got scared , During all the cuddling I felt like a hand squeezed my butt I thought nothing about it because I figured it was an accident or something, a few moments later I felt the hand again but this time it was on my boobs, and a voice in my ears said, 'shut up and relax'.

Before I know it, his hand was up my skirt, I immediately jumped up and yelled to the top of my voice for him to leave me alone when my other cousins (his sisters) wondering what was wrong and asked what had happened to me and I told them.

Can you imagine they laughed at me and said I was lying; they didn't even believe me! I stood there in shock with tears running down my face.

Thinking to myself this is the 2nd time a family member of mine messed with me this way. And whenever I speak up to anyone they either tell me I'm lying or I'm the reason why shit like that happens to me. I felt like I was all alone in this dark and sick world, and life began to feel hopeless.





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