An Invisible Woman

My name is Chantelle. I live in Atlanta. Through my college years I was like a lot of young women unnoticed and content to live in the background. To celebrate my 25th birthday I stepped out of the shadows ready to be seen. That was the night I caught Teddys eyes. Unaccustomed to all the attention I got caught up in a whirlwind of what I thought was love. Five years later when the dust settled I found myself married raising three children and fading into the background again. My mama taught me never to give up on what I wanted and I wanted my family. So I fought to be seen and heard by Teddy. Sad to say it was a losing battle against the strippers on the poles in the ATL the video hoes in his DVDs and porn queens on the XXX-rated websites his eyes were practically glued to. After ten years I should have left him but before I could get my mind right he left me. Its going to take everything Ive got to step back out of the shadows again.