Ange Rewi's Page

Hi my name is Ange Rewi and I am a loving wife to Sam and mother to Brandon (13) & Haydon (8). We will live in beautiful Hamilton New Zealand but we are moving to the gorgeous Gold Coast Australia in February 2010.

My life has been a rocky road as I came from a strict catholic background with a father who abused us and a mother who turned to alcohol and left us when I was 4 years old.

Growing up in such a negative background was very hard as you never had anything positive to look forward too. Also with no real kind of love I never knew exactly what love meant so I went into an abusive relationship.

This is really all I knew and even though in my heart I hated it and I knew that I could do better I didn't know how to achieve it. I wasn't strong enough to go it alone and I didn't have family support to help me through it.

So I left life pass me bye by getting involved with drugs, smoking and alcohol to pass the time and kill the pain.

Then one night when I was 20 and had lived in this abusive relationship for 5 years my partner went crazy and bashed me severely and then took me to a river and held my head under water until I just about drowned. Something cracked inside me and I realised I didn't want to die so I had to fight. I had to find the strength to get out and to survive.

Now I honestly cannot tell you how I achieved this as I literally have no recollection of it. All I can remember is being in the Police Station.

The next few years seem to pass me bye as I had to learn to live life on my own and try to turn my life into a better direction. Then one day I met Sam he was someone that appreciated me for me and for the first time encouraged me to do better.

During the next 15 years we got married and had 2 beautiful children owned an offline business which was very successful. Life seemed to be wonderful.

Then 3 years ago I got another blow to the system. Through a life of abuse I didn't know how to handle stress and started suffering from major migraines and health issues. I ended up in hospital with a brain swell and was told that I would have to cut out all the stress in my life. This would include giving up work otherwise I would end up in a wooden box probably within the next 2 years.

Once again I was fighting for my life I hated it, I felt alone again. So for the past 3 years I have been a stay at home mum, now don't get me wrong here I enjoy being at home with my children but it has hit the family financially and I have never been a person who gets use to sitting around all day. Boredom kicked in and I put on abit of weight.

One day I turned to the internet to achieve a Business Management Degree which I have just about completed and I for some friendship and hopefully to find a better financial lifestyle for my family. My goal is to build a life of my dreams and goals.