My mum witnessed awful things growing up, her mum was an alcoholic and she witnessed her mum stab her one of many boyfriends. My mum had to wash her knickers in the bath when she had a bath, she did all the cooking and cleaning when she was around 10 years old and looked after her 3 younger brothers. Her mum passed away of alcoholism before I was born, when my mum was really young. Heartbreaking.