I have found that many abuse survivors have a hard time evaluating whether a person would be a potentially good mate, or whether s/he would become another abuser. One friend of mine told me that her "picker" was broken, because she had chosen one abusive boyfriend...
I like to write about how to recognize potential abuse in relationships because I remember how long it took me to realize I was being abused. Emotional abuse is especially hard to recognize. When my marriage got difficult, I kept thinking I was doing something wrong,...
Domestic violence has some of the most alarming statistics of any social problem facing the world today. 1 in 4 women will experience it in their lifetime. Think of how staggering that statistic is. If you are in a room of 100 women, twenty-five of them have been or...
One of my blog readers recently pointed me to a great website called HurtByLove. Here is the link. It is written by Cindy Burrell. The first article I read was entitled “What about the Children?” Here is the link for the article. In this article, Cindy gives the...
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