Break Your Silence

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

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