{"id":16923,"date":"2023-05-16T21:20:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T04:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/my-story-catherine\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T15:50:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T22:50:47","slug":"my-story-catherine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=16923","title":{"rendered":"My Story &#8211; Catherine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>**TW **Warning: May trigger Extreme abuse victims, those in a present abusive relationship, or those who suffer with PTSD or trauma formed from these encounters  <\/p>\n<p>Also: Calling out a narc on their unhindered  everyday persona that gets old after a while when the rose colored glasses naturally fall right off::<\/p>\n<p>After 7+ years of extreme physical violence &#038; of all other kinds constantly every few days..<br \/>\nDealing with treating a person less than human, so naturally today after all those tortmentive years&#8230;<br \/>\ni am naturally more grumpy, but..still happy-go-lucky and eternally optimistical  self&#8230;  he begins to play a tune of hated, like an old sounding record playing as if a ritual..<\/p>\n<p>My love always sends me this kind of hate after being sweet as pie to him for months at a time at the very ending of our day, because I even dared to mention his effect of being violent and screaming for hours on end from playing a game after the equal amount of many hours of working hard on the daily grind and praying for a quiet, safe and decent sanctuary a human calls HOME&#8230;<br \/>\nYears of lack of sleep, basic decency, and wondering if I am even enough to this person that treats me less than the gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe&#8230;<br \/>\nSomeone who they believed to have deserved years worth of the beatings, threats of violence of being choked or cheated on or being evicted, worrying about homelessness and even resorting to hiding in closets just to run away from the unstoppable rage that chases me who is supposedly &#8220;my love&#8221;.<br \/>\n Screaming and shouting over games and shows, ignoring basic kindness like boundaries and privacy. I know as a previous survivor and an introvert, my responses in blue are simply not my norm&#8230; but being backed into a corner, you just give up and tell it like it is.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, his comment about my &#8220;nest egg&#8221; is my income tax that I had to hide away or else he would drink himself to death and the last time he thought I had money was after my father died last May..<br \/>\nMy father had no remaining money to give.. but &#8220;my love&#8221;..<br \/>\nHis exact words to me were:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Take your dead Dad&#8217;s money and run&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please delete Admin if too true to reality, just a gal wanting to share a true experience so others never have to wonder&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Am I enough?<\/p>\n<p>***It only allows me to send one picture, so I will only send his abusive random message. If anyone wants more or my saucy response then please reach out<\/p>\n<p>Thank You<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>**TW **Warning: May trigger Extreme abuse victims, those in a present abusive relationship, or those who suffer with PTSD or trauma formed from these encounters Also: Calling out a narc on their unhindered everyday persona that gets old after a while when the rose colored glasses naturally fall right off:: After 7+ years of extreme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,344],"tags":[665,374],"class_list":["post-16923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-break-your-silence","category-survivor-stories","tag-eltmpl","tag-survivor-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>My Story - Catherine - Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence<\/title>\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=16923\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"My Story - Catherine - Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"**TW **Warning: May trigger Extreme abuse victims, those in a present abusive relationship, or those who suffer with PTSD or trauma formed from these encounters Also: Calling out a narc on their unhindered everyday persona that gets old after a while when the rose colored glasses naturally fall right off:: After 7+ years of extreme [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/breakthesilencedv.org\/?p=16923\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Break the Silence Against Domestic Violence\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/btsadv\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-05-17T04:20:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-14T22:50:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Website Director\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@btsadv\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@btsadv\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Website Director\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/breakthesilencedv.org\\\/?p=16923#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/breakthesilencedv.org\\\/?p=16923\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Website Director\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/breakthesilencedv.org\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/f61870953cda3e174db9a616bd685513\"},\"headline\":\"My Story &#8211; 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