I Have Been Hit By a Man

I was slapped in the face, HARD, when I was 13 by my first "boyfriend".  I don't remember his reason, but he hit me so hard, all I could hear was loud ringing in my ears.  When I was 15, I...

It first started at home growing up, I have no recollection of how young I was. Thats how it always was. Belts, wooden spoons, a back brush which that time he bragged about the ass beating he gave my sister and I and proudly had us show...

I still get hit by my husband but now its less often or he may hold his self back from hitting me and just choke me or throw me agaist a wall or smack me or rip my clothes or yell in my face so loud that i think my head will pop off...

I smacked him first though....so suppose its debateable whether or not I had it coming...LOL
It never happened again and was married to him for nearly 20 years....
Just chalked it up to an oops...

My first husband beat me for three and a half yrs till I left one night when he feel asleep.  I got my two kids in the car just in time and locked the doors when he came out the door after me. I knew If he got me He would kill me...

well i'm in a realationship right now where it's verbally, emotinally, and physically. after nearly 4 yrs of being together. 2wks ago i was a nasty bitch because i went out to a party after being sick. it was my birthday during that...

When I was 16 I was punched in the face by a man who then raped me after hitting me, and who threatened to kill my family and me if I told anyone.  In college I was punched, strangled and slapped by my boyfriend at the time. ...

Guys use to insult me and stuff all the time then we started getting into physical fights, i been strangled against the bathroom wall by a guy who was at least 3xs my weight. I still won. My smartness and mad spitting skills helped. I...

I was 18, married with a baby and so very alone. He worked up and down the east coast 5 days a week throughout the first 2 1/2 years of our marriage. So essentially I was a single parent, married to my boyfriend on the weekends...

My daughter was still in my belly when my ex husband use to beat me so hard that I would go to work with black and blues all over me and bite marks. He would lock me in the house and go see the girl he was ******* without a care. I felt...

He told me if i ever left him he would kill me . He wasn't kidding. He started by sneaking into my room and watching me sleep ...I switched the locks he broke in and had a friend of his watch me . He followed me everywhere i went and...

When I was in college I was in an abusive relationship and I am so glad I was able to put this in my past.  I was not only hit, but I was slapped, punched, had my hair pulled out, and was eventually shot by this man. ...

My husband was always verbally abusive ,,, but a few yrs ago we were really having a rough patch financially and i guess emotionally...we have always had pretty bad fights but they were never violent up untill that point no matter how...

.....and while being hurt physically I too have reacted with violence in an effort to defend myself. It certainly is not an excuse this bad behavior but rather a provide a poor explanation. I continue to battle with myself on...