Helping Your Child Heal After Domestic Violence
By Jenn Rockefeller One of the hardest things as a parent is knowing your child endured something painful. If you watched it happen, it’s that much more excruciating. What if that something was domestic violence? How do you help your child heal after something like that? Whether your child witnessed domestic violence or experienced it […]
Angel Story: My Abuser Shot Me and A Friend After I Left
Written by: BTSADV Survivor I was with my abuser for eight years. It all started when I was young and did not want to listen to anyone. When I first started dating him, I was 15 years old. It was also at that age that I first experienced the abuse, but I ignored the red […]
Recognizing Manipulation Tactics
By Jenn Rockefeller When we enter into relationships, we do so with the hope that the relationship will be a mutually loving one. But some relationships are not an equal partnership; rather, they are riddled with abusiveness and one-sided love. These one-sided relationships are not relationships at all. They are abusive from the start because […]
Survivor Story: Five Things That Happen After You Leave
Written by: BTSADV Survivor I have spent the last six years of my life dealing with the aftermath of my abusive marriage – six years. I was married to him for eight years, and nearly half of my life has been driven by my experience with domestic violence. I started speaking out only three years […]
Survivor Story: I Lived with Abuse for Eight Years and Thought of It As Normal
Written by: BTSADV Survivor This past August marked my second anniversary away from my abuser. The photo on the left shows me sitting on a pile of clothes in a trashed apartment on the very last day I had ever spoken to my abuser. On the right, I stand two years later. I cannot believe […]
Survivor Story: My Abuser Told the Military Police That I Assaulted Him
Written by: BTSADV Survivor When I was 14 years old and a freshman in high school, I didn’t know about sex because my parents were old fashioned and believed that the school should teach that. My older brother was a junior that year and always drove me to school. One day after school let out, […]
