Disbelief to strangulation
I have some things to say about domestic abuse. And I’ll start with these quotes:
“I think about how easy it is for humans to make judgments when we’re standing on the outside of a situation. It’s easy when we’re on the outside to believe that we would walk away without second thought if a person mistreated us. It’s easy to say we couldn’t continue to love someone who mistreats us when we aren’t the ones feeling the love of that person.
Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us
“Most people have no clue hidden abuse is taking place right under their noses. It is being perpetrated by individuals who would never be suspected of being abusers. The concealed nature of this harm is what leaves its targets devastated….Normal people have a hard time comprehending that abusers go to such lengths, but they do.”
Shannon Thomas, Healing From Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse
“Statistically we know now that once the hands are on the neck, the very next step is homicide.”
Rachel Louise Snyder, No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us (67)
I lost count of how many times his hands were on my neck. God only knows how many more times they were on my mother’s neck….
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