Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. No one deserves abuse, period. Abuse can be emotional, physical, or sexual.
Hi All!
It was about this time last year that I found this board. I never would have guessed a year later that so much would have changed. That I would have had the courage to leave my abusive relationship and drastically change my life.
It hasn't been easy and it has been an uphill battle. I slid backwards (or so I thought at the time) and went back to my ex. I now know it was something I had to do to erase any hesitations or doubts from my mind.
Leaving an abuse relationship caused me to face many of my fears, both directly and indirectly, that I have avoid for years. My biggest fear was being alone.
You know what? I had never been more alone than I have been when I was involved in my relationship. There is no silence or emptiness that compares to being deliberately ignored and treated as a non-person, an object, to the person that we have pledged to love and committed ourselves too.
I am facing that fear and many more... But most of all, I am here to say thank you to all of the wonderful, magical, kind and compassionate people that I have found on DS.
You are all a special group, and I am not leaving any time soon!
Regardless of where you are or who you are with, know that you are loved, right now, as you are, by me.
I wish each and every one of you a good and happy holiday!!!
Love,
Free (at long LAST!!!)
It was about this time last year that I found this board. I never would have guessed a year later that so much would have changed. That I would have had the courage to leave my abusive relationship and drastically change my life.
It hasn't been easy and it has been an uphill battle. I slid backwards (or so I thought at the time) and went back to my ex. I now know it was something I had to do to erase any hesitations or doubts from my mind.
Leaving an abuse relationship caused me to face many of my fears, both directly and indirectly, that I have avoid for years. My biggest fear was being alone.
You know what? I had never been more alone than I have been when I was involved in my relationship. There is no silence or emptiness that compares to being deliberately ignored and treated as a non-person, an object, to the person that we have pledged to love and committed ourselves too.
I am facing that fear and many more... But most of all, I am here to say thank you to all of the wonderful, magical, kind and compassionate people that I have found on DS.
You are all a special group, and I am not leaving any time soon!
Regardless of where you are or who you are with, know that you are loved, right now, as you are, by me.
I wish each and every one of you a good and happy holiday!!!
Love,
Free (at long LAST!!!)
You sound happy and I am thrilled. I love happy posts.
I wish you a happy holiday also. You have come so far!!!!!
Congratulations!!!!
((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((CHRISTMAS HUGS)))))))))))))))))))))))))))
We all love you too :) And it's so great to hear how happy you sound... I'm staying around too, this board has been such a help I cannot describe it.
Merry Christmas and wishing you all great things for 2014! Huge hugs xx
And like you, I found that the loneliness of being alone is as nothing to the loneliness of sitting on the couch beside someone who promised to love you, but who treats you as beneath contempt. And as hard as it is to be a single mother, it's way easier than being a mother while trying to deal with an abusive partner. I've now been alone nearly 5 years and, although it would be nice to have a relationship if I meet the right person, I'm not sure I would even want to actually live with someone again. I enjoy the freedom too much. :-)
All raise your glasses - "to freedom!"
Happy Holidays :)