I\u2019m 53yrs old now my story goes like this from 14\u201318 my boyfriend beat me up slapped me took advantage made me feel worthless I was able to get out of it because he went to jail for a long time for something else I was finally free but I started drinking a lot of alcohol getting into bad relationships
29 yrs old meet my daughter father thought he was the one wrong he hit me as well all threw out relationship even during my pregnancy I was kept from friends family couldn\u2019t breathe without him being around he took my money made me beg for money I would run to hide he would find me many visits to the hospital cause he beat me up had stress on my baby sometimes I wanted to give up I didn\u2019t stayed strong my mom threw me out was in the shelter with him it was worse all the name calling hits yelling everything I had to make a change I was tired got the courage to kick him out I could breathe but the stalking baggering me on the streets calls pop up visits police reports court dates just to much orders of protection cops don\u2019t care or believe you we always did something to bring this on ourselves that was the response I was scared no help from nobody stood on my own I\u2019m still here standing took class went to workshops to heal myself I\u2019m still healing cause I never gave up it\u2019s sad we don\u2019t have a system that cares about soviors of domestic violence we are people too many days of missed work cause you don\u2019t wanna deal with the pioups at your job it was hard but I came threw still a lot of scares but I\u2019m strong my daughter is strong it was me and her going threw this we don\u2019t deal with him haven\u2019t seen him In years a load off my shoulder don\u2019t ever think it\u2019s your fault it\u2019s not people don\u2019t understand why you ain\u2019t leave why you stayed so long didn\u2019t have the answer still ask myself why you was better than this deserve better I\u2019m just trying to heal get myself back<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m 53yrs old now my story goes like this from 14\u201318 my boyfriend beat me up slapped me took advantage made me feel worthless I was able to get out of it because he went to jail for a long time for something else I was finally free but I started drinking a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,344],"tags":[92,161,162,90,665,116,117,115,128,34],"class_list":["post-19342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-break-your-silence","category-survivor-stories","tag-abuse","tag-break-the-silence-against-domestic-violence","tag-btsadv","tag-domestic-violence","tag-eltmpl","tag-emotional-abuse","tag-physical-abuse","tag-survivor","tag-trauma","tag-verbal-abuse"],"yoast_head":"\n