{"id":15245,"date":"2020-05-13T19:04:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T02:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15245"},"modified":"2022-08-27T10:51:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T17:51:57","slug":"grace-davis-survivor-sister-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=15245","title":{"rendered":"Grace Davis Survivor Sister Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>How it felt to be abused.<\/p>\n<p>Trapped, lonely, and no hope to escape..in my darkest moments I felt nothingness and empty. I questioned the point of living. It was a pitch black emptiness to my core.. I accepted that I would forever be abused and feel so much pain from the person I loved..He had belittled me, taken my self worth, and hurt me so dearly over the years I&#8217;d realized I was reacting so out of my normal self. I rarely reacted violently, but then I began to feel too much fear to react at all. I knew the physical violence was becoming so much more intense over the years, I couldn&#8217;t get away with defending myself anymore.. I accepted the physical abuse and would just cry and beg for it to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Gaslighting me until I felt like I couldn&#8217;t even trust myself into believing the reality of the abuse being so bad, telling me it&#8217;s all my fault. The emotional abuse was worse than the physical abuse because I was so convinced being physically abused by strangulation, slapping, pushing, hitting, throwing objects at me, intimidating me by breaking everything in front of me wasn&#8217;t &#8220;so bad&#8221;..I was convinced he would be able to take my daughter from me, he always told me I was crazy and if he ever left, he&#8217;d take my daughter.<br \/>\nI am still so hurt over how many things of mine he broke.. he knew it hurt me so much to break the home I loved into pieces..<\/p>\n<p>I left with a protective order and never looked back. I wanted a chance to raise my baby peacefully, and safely. I&#8217;m still fighting to.<\/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 Grace Davis 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-15245","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Grace Davis Survivor Sister Story<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Survivor Sister Grace Davis 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=15245\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Grace Davis Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grace Davis Breaks the Silence Against Domestic Violence. 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