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Read or listen to Roxana Gabriela Quiroz Ortiz’s full oral history. Original interview in Spanish. An English translation is also available.

I felt I loved him, I don’t know if I was obsessed, infatuated or just used to him, I don’t know if that was because although he treated me ugly, I worked. But I wanted my children’s father to be my husband forever. So working at home helped me overcome that. After my children were growing up, they were baptized in the church in 2010. We were still living there in the neighborhood. But they gave me a great lesson, because I wanted his dad to change, but nobody changes if he doesn’t want to. And I wanted to change my life because I said to myself, I didn’t want to live this life anymore. And in 2010 I was baptized, we were baptized. They were baptized first, my children. He was baptized but really like I didn’t want to progress as my first husband. Then he did not want to progress.


I was active for a year but due to the problems that were coming I stopped attending church and started those bigger problems that were in 2011 and in 2012 that I already went to live at my mother’s house. He decided that we already separated and it was like that, although it hurt a lot. But there really was an occasion that my mother and a sister came to visit me and encouraged me to go back to look for the Lord, that I could not live in that depression because I felt I had no time for my children because I lived crying, overwhelmed, no I looked at solution. But that visit helped me a lot because it really was to raise that head again and move on. And the hardest was coming, the toughest stage they were already fourteen and fifteen years old. And then my son had been very close to him and had fallen into depression, and I had to get up to get him. I returned to the church little by little. Afterwards it was a difficult process because my son was in a rebel stage but still thank God I met my husband today and he helped me.