Domestic Abuse Survivors Community Group
Domestic Abuse Survivors is a group for survivors and their support network to air their past and present experiences of emotional as well as physical abuse. It was established to give a forum on a subject society tends to shy away from.
For 4 long years he manipulated me into supporting him financially. Out of love, blind trust and stupidity, I allowed him to abuse me. I couldn’t even see it until it was too late.
When I was feeling so broken and lost at the start of MY pandemic, he denied my illness. He accused me of overreacting. He tried to convince me that I wasn’t a risk-taker. Ironically, he demanded that I trust him and tried to convince me that “everything would be fine”. It isn’t.
When I was feeling suicidal, he refused to lock up my pills.
When I was feeling lonely and isolated, he taunted me with threats of moving out, asking “What are you going to do, kill yourself?”.
When I was feeling betrayed and abandoned, he left me. On his way out the door he declared “If I stay here I’m going to kill myself!”.
After he left, he harassed me remotely. He managed to lock me out of my entire cyber life. Technology is my lifeline in the middle of this global pandemic. I was terrified. It was a loneliness I’d never experienced before. I was on the edge of insanity.
Now he’s asking for spousal support!
What can I do to protect myself? What can I do to be heard?
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My 5 year old came forward on March 5th That another child in his class was reaching into his pants under his underwear and touching his penis each time he was in this class. The offending child and him sat alone at the table, clearly out of sight. He was trapped because he was afraid of disrupting class and afraid of the other kids, laughing if they knew what happened. The disturbed child...
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I was in an abusive relationship for 17 years it's the only relationship I've ever even been in so what I thought of as love im now finding out wasn't love at all and that sucks my dad says things like I just need to let it go and it's insulting frankly. I let it go for 17 years just because I'm no longer being abused doesn't mean the pain and anger are gone. I refuse to let it go when I was...