In You Don't Know my Story, Shirley Parram-Sims reveals the emotional abuse she experience from her mother and the men in the life of her mother. She tells of her childhood that was stolen from her due to her mother's alcohol abuse and how she had to step up and take care of her siblings. She tells of her failure in being a good wife and mother and her failure to show love. She wrote You Don't Know my Story so that other ladies can know that they can make it with the Lord on their side.