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Verbal abuse is still abuse. It’s abuse in the form of words. Don’t assume that a few hurtful words won’t cost them their life. Words hurt. Verbal abuse involves just as much hurt and damage as punches, slaps or kicks do. Words are used in a way to attack you, control you and hurt you. [...]
Writing this is quite hard for me as I’ve shut a lot of my childhood out, for reasons that will come clear as you read my story. For as long as I remember, my parents never had a normal relationship like my friends parents. my dad drunk a lot and spent a lot of time [...]
Domestic abuse or domestic violence, whichever term you use means so much more than being physically hit, punched or kicked. I know all too well the devastating lasting effects of domestic violence and even after leaving, the abuse is never far from your mind I spent 11 years in a domestic violence marriage, I left over [...]
Depression Caused By Emotional Abuse The emotional abuse started almost straight away, little things at the start, I would hardly notice. But over time his insults and controlling behaviour turned more sinister. I felt myself sink into depression, why was this man, the man who claimed loved me treating me this way? I started to believe [...]
The support worker who has been assigned to work with me and my family due to social services becoming involved in my family in regards to my ex husband has been somewhat of a life saver. Easy to talk too, someone who listens and does not judge and is a mountain of knowledge, even [...]
What was the most painful break up you ever had? Was the question I read on my group. I remember back to almost 6 years now when my own marriage ended. Standing there that Monday morning holding my divorce papers in shaking hands I wept. Crying because my marriage was finally over and that chapter [...]
Today I talk to an inspirational mum who is unable to get passed the guilt she feels for allowing domestic violence to come so close to her children. Left as a single mum to her almost 2 year old daughter and 6 months pregnant she felt sure to remain alone, that was until [...]
Domestic violence and emotional abuse often come together. An abuser will emotionally abuse his victim as a form of control. The emotional abuse can sometimes be harder to recognise as the victim slowly looses confidence and self belief. A mum shares her domestic violence story with you: I was sixteen years old when [...]
Mental health problems can occur at at any given time, mixed with a complicated relationship it can prove fatal. A mental health issue left untreated can manifest itself hidden deep beneath the surface, just waiting for an opportunity to attack. A mum shares anonymously her story on mental health and a break up: Loosing [...]
It is not uncommon for a victim of domestic violence to have already witnessed an abusive relationship. It is also common for a survivor to become a victim again. A mum shares anonymously her domestic violence story with you: Abusive relationships were normal to me, my father beat my mother throughout my childhood, some [...]
I am writing my story of domestic violence for the blog, as this is the first step to recovery, and to putting the past behind me where it belongs. I was 15 years old, and I had joined up to an online community chat site for teenagers, and that is where I met [...]
At 24 I married a man I believed was kind, warm, loving and with a good sense of humour. I was so young, in love, so happy and so stupid. The signs were there for someone who was more adept at reading people, but not for this country kid. I left my own country [...]
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