HI everyone. I have never posted a question, mostly because someone else is looking for the same advice and I don't need to. All of you in Mamapedia-land really do give great advice :) I'm really not looking for anyone to answer my subject question, but domestic violence is a subject that has effected me personally and anyone who has never been through it can never really understand how it can happen. I friend posted a link to a website today that covers a great deal of issues surrounding domestic violence and how to recognize the early warning signs. So this post is really to get that link out there for anyone who might think they are being abused or know some who is, or anyone who wants to learn more about how it can happen and how to help those it's happening to. I will put the link in s SWH, and I ask that even though I'm not really asking a question that no one flags this for removal because it really could help someone who desperately needs it. Thank you.
Here is the link: http://www.batteredwomen.com/@page_id=363.htm. Help can also be found by calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or going to www.safe4all.org.
Thank you for sharing this. I am going to post the link on FB. We never know who may be going through this.
It must be so scary to feel alone about this.
Thanks for the post!
I've been a victim of domestic violence and I can say that you can't even understand the depth of the fear until you've lived it. I've been out of my situation for over 25 years, but when I think about it, the debilitating fear comes right back. I don't know that I will EVER be completely over it. I probably should have had counseling, but never did.
Thanks again for posting this. If it helps even one woman, you have done a great thing!
I suspect one of my tenants might be living in a scary, controlled environment. Neighbors have tried to reach out to her, but she is too afraid to tell. Even tho it all seems quite obvious to the rest of us.
There is a better and easier to read link:
http://www.turningpointservices.org/Domestic%20Violence%2...
Been there --- done that Now I'm a Black Belt so NEVER AGAIN.
Not currently. Yay, me. Rather funnily I noticed something about myself today. After god knows how many years of not being believed on a daily basis... my instinct (anyone notice this here with my various studies and stuff) is that I have to have 'proof' to be believed.
SERIOUSLY.
Like my word isn't good enough.
Hit me today like a ton of bricks. Totally cracks me up. EVERYTHING I say I make sure I have evidence behind me. It's not enough for me to just say my son has been in x,y,z, sports for a,b,c years... I just naturally went through trying to find reciepts to prove I'd paid, the practice schedules, etc. Person who'd asked was like "I don't need these."
Oh.
You mean, I say something, and you just believe it.
Concept.
I'd
Totally
Forgotten
About.
Daaaaaaaang.
I was in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship. It was awful. Luckily, I saw the light before marriage and children...but it was close.
yikes. no. But my aunt died when i was 14 years old - her husband beat her to death. She was only 30. What a shitty situation.
Very caring of you t post the info. Thanks. Fortunately, DV is not my situation. I went to Rev. Ruby's link and looked at that "Power & Control" wheel.... I know women like that... Sadly, they see the controlling behavior of their male counterparts as a man's role or as a "man being a man". Many women are subjected to this type of treatment and erroneously believe that they are simply being submissive as God wants them to be. I hope their eyes are opened.
