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❤️ Please Listen to Me ❤️

Added 2022-07-25 19:09:26 +0000 UTC

"The subject of abuse needs a lot more listening, empathy and education, and a lot less judgement and plain ignorance.

The psychology of abuse is complicated. People don't leave their abusers for a long time (if ever) because they are conditioned to stay. The abuser trains them to believe that they don't have an out. You cannot be treated that poorly and still think like a regular, free person."

God, I know I'm a broken record. I know, but it's important. I've been estranged from my abuser for 20-something years, and I am still dealing with the things he did to me and my family. Domestic violence in the West has only increased over the last 20 years. It is a rising norm that pervades gender, race, and even age.

We need to talk about how to treat people right. We need to talk about what happens to people when they are controlled by another human being. We need to understand what living in fear for your life and the lives of children does to a person. My mother was beaten, humiliated, sexually abused, and worse for twenty years, and she still summoned the strength to get me and my siblings away from a monster. And I believe without question, I would be dead if she hadn't.

Please, please, all of us, exercise compassion, empathy, and genuine care towards victims.

My family are not the majority, we are the exception - we got out - alive.

There are millions of terrified men, women and children who are never gonna get that.

We have to do better now.