{"id":15227,"date":"2020-07-15T17:03:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T00:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15227"},"modified":"2022-08-27T10:51:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:51:50","slug":"sarah-taurus-survivor-sister-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15227","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Taurus Survivor Sister Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For 13 years, I was in an abusive marriage. I was taught to honor my husband, so our alleged privacy was what enabled the abuse more than anything else. I kept it quiet even from my own family.  My now ex-husband would pull me around the kitchen by my ponytail, drive recklessly with me and the children in the car, and shove me down the stairs to name a few.  He basically brainwashed me. It all came to a head one night when he strangled me but God saved me and I survived.<\/p>\n<p>I actually have quite a testimony. Please let me know if you would like me to share it. I&#8217;m willing to write and\/or do a video about it.  I prefer anonymity right now not because of myself but to protect my children.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, and God bless you!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nNotice: The names in this story are fictitious to protect the request for anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Survivor Sister Sarah Taurus speaks out breaking her silence about domestic violence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-break-your-silence","category-sister-survivors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sarah Taurus Survivor Sister Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Survivor Sister Sarah Taurus speaks out breaking their silence about domestic violence telling their story and experience dealing with domestic violence directly.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15227\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sarah Taurus Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sarah Taurus Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence. 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