Trigger Warning These stories mention occurrences of domestic violence and may be triggering to some users. Some names may have been changed.

My Story – Gerone

On may 31 my now ex boyfriend in his un medicated bipolar schizophrenia episode beat me and raped me for 1 hr . He’s in custody and Right now I’m in the process of get a restraining order. What hurts the most I spent 3 years under his control slowly isolating myself just to be with him . I heard story how he head butted his previous girlfriend and was there when he slapped his mother . But I didn’t think he’d go that far with me , I thought I was different. He conditioned me to to love him no matter what , to be truly devoted to him , to let him defame my character because he felt like I was seeing other people when in reality it was him . It was always him

A Reflection on a Past Relationship and Recognizing Domestic Violence”

Steve – nice guy met on a dating site I dated about 10 years ago.. I just realised how to describe how he treated me. It’s called DV. We date for an intense couple of months or so… Catching up as much as we could. Everyone who met him thought...

Speaking Truth to Power: My Battle Against Workplace Abuse

I was friends with him for six months, we met at work. He would walk me home at night to make sure I got home safe, we went to the gym together, went on runs together. Then he started treating me like shit because he wanted to become a manager....

Breaking the Silence: Living with a Partner with PMDD

It took about 8 years after our first born to realize my wife was in a cycle. Throughout the humps of marriage that are typical, various reactions have taken place to things that have seemingly similar levels of stress. It started to became apparent, however, that the cycles were there...