I started watching this series called “Greenleaf” it was created by a playwright named Craig Wright, but it was featured on Oprah Winfrey’s network (OWN), at first I wasn’t interested in this series whatsoever. Not that it wasn’t interesting, it was just a lot going on and it just couldn’t hold my attention. What grabbed and held my attention was Zora Greenleaf’s storyline. She was in a abusive relationship at a young age. I was very confused at first. I was thinking “how is this happening?”, “Why won’t she just block the boy?”, “Why does she keep going back to the boy after he has hurt her and disrespected her multiple times?”. I didn’t understand it. I didn’t understand her. From the outside looking in of every situation where I saw a woman being mistreated by a man, allowing themselves to be mistreated by a man, refusing to leave the man alone because they love him so much (no matter how much he hurts her), etc. I didn’t understand it. I’ve always said to myself “I would never allow a man to treat me that way”, “If I was her I would’ve did this or that”, “If I was her I would’ve left”, etc. I added my little two cents not knowing or not understanding that could easily be me. Soon enough I found out.

Zora’s story was interesting to me. She came from a two parent household, her family were well known in church, she grew up in church, she lived in a nice home, she attended a nice school, she had the cutest hairstyles and clothes. From the outside looking in it appeared that she had it all. Yet she still felt like she was lacking something. Perhaps it was attention from her parents, or maybe she felt trapped in her own reality, or maybe she just didn’t love herself even though she had everything. Perhaps she was still unhappy within. Originally her cousin Sophia had a crush on this boy named Isaiah Hambrick, Zora was aware of Sophia’s crush, Sophia was too shy to interact with Isaiah on her own, so Zora helped her out.

Zora and Isaiah ended up hitting it off more than Isaiah and Sophia even had the chance. He took immediate interest in Zora considering who she and her family was inside of the church....