Amin~ do not mess with her or her owner!

So this lady here gives me the name Amin. She means business and serious business. Amin was from Libya and she lived in a time prior to the revolution there in 1969. She was married by her fathers consent at age 13 to a man who was 29. She tells me during the first year of her marriage she was scared, felt violated and hoped for help everyday. However, the help never came. Her husband expected her to bare 9 children and he wanted all boys. Each time a girl was born Amin was physically abused. Even though some of the abuse was to the point her whole body hurt, she was expected to get out of bed and do her suitors as a wife. She tells me she had no say as to when she wanted to be intimate with her husband. Her husband did not allow her to leave the home as this could possibly make her tempted to do things she’d “regret”. Amin never had a life of her own, it was spent raising children and being controlled. After her 9th child who was her 3rd girl her husband went on to find a new younger