Michelle was a person that wasn’t use to decent treatment, people always took advantage of her trusting nature and knowing her for her money, for them reasons I guess that’s why she had problems, NOT knowing how to understand me. For example, On valentines day 2008 I booked a hotel on her say-so but she never turned up, my assumption to that, she was apprehensive and wasn’t use to being treated like a person, for instance, when I asked her would she like to go on holiday, her reply was “so how much is it going to cost me”.(I figure thats the kind of stuff she was used too & grew to accept) With her not turning up on valentine’s day it did cause arguments, but at the same time i tried to ask the reason “why”. The same thing happened on my 50th birthday in March 2008, i guess she just was not comfortable with my friends, she always fought she was not good enough for me; from that I can only gather she had all her confidence displaced from her. All the abuse she received took its toll on Michelle, which caused our relationship at first to have problems but as time went on our relationship grew stronger. For the two years that I known and loved Michelle I seen a change in her, she became happy and content. I would like to thank Michelle as from her happiness came my happiness. Yes we were “chalk and cheese” but it seemed to have worked, it jelled the little things in life such as, walking through the streets holding hands, steeling quick kisses in public, and even shopping together, which was a new experience for her. It was all uncomfortable at first for her but as time passed by she became used to a new way of treatment. I would like to think I did my best in restoring her self-respect, which was unfortunately taken away from her by the events in her life. She always confronted me and asked the question.... "why did i choose her" DO WE EVER KNOW THE REASON WHY??, BUT GIVING BACK SELF RESPECT IS A START ! LOVE CONQUERS ALL BARRIERS.