Pain in Portugal

by Hayley
(Birmingham)

It's a long time since I last made an entry, and my confidence has grown massively in that time. The nightmares are still there unfortunately, but the counselling is going great.

My last entry was gearing up for a second holiday in Portugal I was looking forward to it, knowing that it could not be as bad as the previous year...or so I thought.

when my parents were around it was fine. We went on trips, but mainly lay around by the pools. Myself and my not so dear brother both succeeded in slicing our toe up on a tile on the bottom of the "big" pool, but hey, it didn't take what shine there was off the holiday. Thankfully my parents had no part in the hell I endured that year. My brother however was a different matter all together.

When my parents left us on our own to go shopping, I was always the one that had to clear up, irregardless of the fact that I had done it night after night. Instead of helping me, all he could do was hurl abuse at me. Any time I attempted to stand up for myself it merely brought a sarcastic answer.

I don't have much time now so I will try and finish this of as soon as I can get access to a computer.