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A Year has Passed Like Socrates said, “Wonder brings wisdom.” If you do not wonder about something how will you ever learn?My abuser did not want me to have knowledge, because knowledge is powerful, and that is what he took away...

I read quite a few of your stories and I find it interesting, but not surprising that I have not read one story by a male.  This sort of goes with my experience as a victim of domestic violence. 

I was married very young to...

I have for many years now been putting up with domestic voilence.. It has ground me down so much i do want to die some times:( i dont know why I have stuck it for so long I think its coz I feel i could never live on my own. I feel very...

I thought it was love, an over the top tenderness, a magnetic sensuality that kept me waiting for the next time we were alone.... At first it wasn't abusive, just angry sometimes, what's a little insult with a bit of a slap or...

When I met my husband, he couldn't do enough for me.  He was wonderful.  But as soon as the vows were taken he changed, slowly and subtly at first, then it sped up and became more obvious.  He isolated me from my friends...

That's what my social worker tells me when we visit and talk. Your not a victim your a survivor.    I see women who are TRUE survivors.  The ones who survive horrors.  I don't see myself as that.  I know women wear it like a proud...

I just wanted to stop by and drop a little song of support for y'all.  You all are inspirations to other s who need help.  I was suffering with some memories of a past situation and found this site and this group and through your...

I was unprepared for the nightmare I got myself into when I was 18-years-old. Back then...they really didn't talk about abuse within romantic relationships like they do now. I was naive...very wet behind the ears...and not expecting a...

This is a blog i wrote on March 3 on my myspace. I was so tired of hearing beaten women bashed!! I am a huge DV activist in my hometown and hope that by informing the masses beaten women can avoid further humiliation.
STOP CALLING...

"I'm sorry, you just make me so mad". How many times I've heard that, I thought as I rubbed my swollen cheek.
  It started out perfect, I met a man that was handsome, smart, and could make anyone laugh. He was the...

So I was with this man for over 5 years....  I married him August 16, 2007.  I left for my honeymoon literally the day after my wedding to Hawaii.  Well, two weeks after we got back the name calling started...

No one believes that Jim could be violent.  He's a white male philosophy professor.  No one could believe that I would be the kind of woman who would participate in the abuse.  I'm bright and outspoken. ...

I have written many stories. I have shared my pain and hopefully some of you have found some comfort or identify with the issues I have and am facing.  It has been several years since I physically left my abuser.  I tried to be civil...

He was so tender and calm at the beginning of our marriage . Cared for me . As soon as I became pregnant everything changed . At first he started yelling  , insulting me  . Soon he punched me first time . I...

There are a lot of people who have really suffered serious domestic violence, so what I write is not meant to equate at all to the devastation these people have dealt with and likely continue to deal with - physically and mentally. But...

I really wish I knew how to get over the abuse I suffered in my last relationship. It has been six years and I still suffer. I thought leaving him would make it all better. However, now I find that I suffer from rage and fear. I haven't...

A couple of nights ago I was at an exs who held me without consent, lifted his fists and tried to throw me down the stairs...there is a lot more to this to put into a story, am very jumpy,upset and cant stop crying....

When we met four years ago, I fell totally and completely in love.  Mutual friends set us up on a blind date and from the day we met, we became inseparable.  We were both parents, had survived bad relationships, were raised similarly...

It started 7 years ago. I moved to a new state and met a man who was unlike any other I had ever met. I was a divorced mother with 3 children, and he accepted me and loved my children, or so I thought. As the relationship progressed he...