Eleanor Doyle
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
That was gone.
Then we moved literally next door and we were renting inside in that house.
But just things were so horrific.
Like he was physically violent.
Thankfully, never, never to the kids.
And I'm just, you know, grateful for that.
Like, you know, but I remember there were, I suppose, you know, by this time now, there were like nine, six and three.
And things were really, really bad.
And as I said, I kept it, kept it from everybody.
And then my dad had a massive stroke and he was like, you know, my hero, my everything, everything.
and he was such an active man it was just it just crushed the whole lot of us like me and my brother my sister my mom it just completely crushed us and they had been living he'd just retired and they'd been living in Turkey for eight months of the year and that so I couldn't tell them like they were living in this their world was broken as it was I couldn't tell them like what was going on you know because I just didn't want to cause any more hurt you know
And my sister was over there trying to help mom and dad in Turkey and the stroke here.
And then they went to Turkey, we'll say the following summer or whatever.
And it was kind of their last time there.
I think that they needed to go there and
My mom couldn't manage.
My sister went over and helped for a while.
And that was our kind of last time over there.
But it was so bad.
So when my parents were over there, this was kind of like, let's say, the moment.