Melissa Wilcox:  

Life Life is good. It didn't used to be but it all worked out the way it should have. My over-protective father made high school alot worse than it had to be. I understand it now that I'm older and a parent myself. It was just hard to understand at the time. After high school, I spent two and a half years secluded in my house...literaly. My only route to the outside world was once a month I was allowed to spend the night at my good friend's house. Then something snapped. My friend made me see what was going on and that it was time to make some changes, so I did. I was "allowed" to apply for a job at a local retail store. Once I got the job I was ecstatic that, for once in a really long time, I had a reason to get up in the morning. I was quickly making friends and soon after I was hired, I found my future husband. But that was not part of my father's plan. I had to threaten to leave home, and actually did leave for a day, before he saw that I was a 21-year-old who wa...Expand for more