DV Shared Stories
Here are stories shared by those affected by Domestic Violence. If you’d like to share your story, please click here:
Shared DV Stories
Education
Education is so important. I recall when I was attempting to return to school after our first daughter was born. My boyfriend/fiance of 6 years […]
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Fear of Monsters
My Story – Here I leave my poem, a poem of hopes and fears. My name is Ana and for fourteen years I was married to […]
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Let Go of the Past and Found at Last
I had struggled with finding myself. I had struggled with being myself. I felt like Mulanwhen she sang the song, “Reflection.” Then I eventually learned […]
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Why do you make me do this?
My journey through the ever-changing world of domestic violence, the mental, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse began with the maternally unkempt role model I was […]
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Abuse was all I knew growing up
The first time I experienced physical , mental and sexual abuse was as a child. My first impression of what relationships looked like stemmed from […]
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It just escalated and got worse, so much worse
I feel, looking back on my life that from the moment I was born, I was born for a reason, God had plans for my […]
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Abuse followed me
Every relationship I got in was tainted with some form of dysfunction. This is because I didn’t know what a functional relationship was supposed to […]
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A losing war against yourself
“I think you love me,” I tell him. He laughs. “You think I love you?” “Yes.” “Alright,” he says, “so I love you. So what?” […]
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Rebuilding
It’s a part of my past that I rarely bring up because there was always a question about what I did to contribute to the […]
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When he got that enraged look
I was being abused and didn’t even realize it. It started so subtly at first that I didn’t even recognize the signs. Thinking back to […]
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Abuse was part of every day life
My father sexually and physically abused me as a child. He also physically abused my mother and brother. He would take pleasure in punishing us […]
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