The decision to be happy.

Antonella, a young and recently graduated woman, was beautiful and expected a successful life thanks to the fact that she finished her law career with excellence and the dean had recommended her for great jobs, although it was true that she was a beautiful woman her appearance was not very good, she did not recognize her beauty and rather hid it, her clothes were from a woman twice her age or more, and her hair was always in a bow tie or in a braid, she had her self-esteem very low, Since she was a child she was a victim of bullying because of her color and she only withdrew and tried to hide from others, her home was always dysfunctional, her mother was also a beautiful woman, she had never even valued herself, and when her father died in a terrible accident she only looked for a man to replace him and without knowing him she married him, who at the same time only physically and psychologically mistreated her and this was the environment that Antonella always had.

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She was a strong teenager and fought to always be a good student, that was her escape, in her house she also had to hide, one day when she was 16 years old her stepfather looked at her with different eyes and began to talk to her in a lewd way and he approached her threateningly and when he had already taken her to a corner while the young woman was only crying, crouching on the floor hiding her face from fear, her mother arrived, that same day she told him what had happened but she only told him that she had imagined it, However, he never left her alone with his stepfather and when he had to go out to do the shopping he took her with him, but that almost imperceptible fact had marked her, from that moment on she dressed very demurely and only sought to hide her figure and herself and she clung to books and studies not to think about anything that happened around her and thus became a successful lawyer, When she started making good money, she rented an apartment and left her house, tried to take her mother, but that man had not allowed her to do so and had only beaten her for wanting to leave her side.

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At the time, Antonella was already a recognized lawyer and being a very intelligent woman she had gone to a therapist to help her with her self-esteem problems because she understood that she had to change her appearance to be more taken into account, her life had turned 180 degrees but she felt empty and she was 25 years old and was alone, She had never encouraged herself to be with any man for fear that she would be like her stepfather that she had never told about it in her therapies and she had never gotten over it either, looking on the internet she got a fertility clinic and asked for an appointment she had already made the decision to be a mother by artificial insemination, she no longer wanted to be alone and she wanted to share her successes with someone she loved.

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Thus the years passed and Antonella had had her son, a lively and happy little boy, healthy and very intelligent, always stressed her respect for the woman, teaching her values and always doing the right thing. She was already 30 years old and was still alone but knew a man 10 years older than her in the firm where she worked, He was a gentleman he asked her out and always included Marcos his son, a year passed and she accepted to be his girlfriend and to know him better to be able to make a decision, he had proposed to her but she had refused him explaining that this step would be taken only when she was sure of them and of what they had, He would never allow his son to grow up in a violent home or to see that his mother was mistreated, 4 years passed and Antonella felt happy with Raul, he had shown her that not all men were the same and he realized that he really wanted to end his life with him, his son was going to turn 10 and adored him, they loved each other very much and that helped her decide, one day she left little Marco with her best friend, that night and by candlelight she waited for Raul at home and after a dinner in a perfect environment Antonella knelt down as he had done before and asked the man she loved to marry her, that night was perfect, he lifted her from the floor and with a long, tender kiss answered her yes.

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The experiences shape you more you do not depend on them to define your personality, you may have gone through many traumas and had a difficult childhood, but only you will decide who you will be in the present, not all people are equal and not all people choose the best paths, we must never generalize and believe that all are equal, many times by fears we limit ourselves to living magnificent experiences, living is to create each day a new experience and only we can allow ourselves to be happy.