From the monthly archives: August 2007
I adore Oprah and have since I was a teenager. Her show hit big, nationwide, when I was in 9th or 10th grade. My friends and I would watch it after school then talk about it. A show she had on domestic violence in the early 90s helped me so much, and since then I [...]
I wish I were a strong woman, but I am not. I don’t think I have the inner strength and mental stability that most women have. Part of the reason I stayed with the man who abused me was because I was not strong. I was so afraid of the world, of making decisions, of [...]
I wore my broken heart like a badge This was how I used to be. I was such a martyr. It was like I thought people would like me better or think better of me the more I suffered or something. I really got a lot emotionally out of having people pity me or feel [...]
Do you want to be happy but just don’t know how to be? Does everything seem to be hard for you? Is life a constant battle? Do you feel you struggle and struggle and get no where, nothing ever changes? When good things happen to you, do you even notice or are you able to [...]
I’ve been tooling around the net reading tips on how to make a blog profitable. It seems to me the blogs that make a lot of money are blogs that are about blogging for money! LOL! I find this both fascinating and incredibly funny. Anyway they all pretty much say the same thing: build your [...]
This. Book. Is. AWESOME. It’s by Patricia Evans who wrote the also awesome book The Verbally Abusive Relationship. I initially got this book for a close friend of mine who is trying to come to terms with being in a physically abusive relationship. I have been there, and she knows this, but she does not [...]
I LOVE THIS!!!! Watch Out! Symptoms Of Inner Peace:by Saskia Davis Be on the lookout for symptoms of inner peace. The hearts of a great many have already been exposed to inner peace and it is possible that people everywhere could come down with it in epidemic proportions. This could pose a serious threat to [...]
I noticed this morning that I have been doing something lately, for the past week or so, that shows me I am slowly losing the paranoia and fear that has haunted my life since leaving that abusive relationship. I have been putting my keys in my pocket or purse when I am out and about. [...]
I am getting my story out in bits and pieces…truthfully it is very hard to re-visit the mental state I was in at the time but I am finding it therapeutic. I left after a ‘minor’ beating, meaning no skin breaking/bleeding,and no kicking. He ‘just’ pushed me into a wall, smacked me really hard several [...]
There is a woman on a mothering site I frequent who is being stalked and abused by her boyfriend’s father. She lived with this man alone with her baby while her boyfriend was away at school. Then boyfriend dropped out or changed schools, anyway he came home. She has been posting about her experiences with [...]
When I think about being with somebody who abused me I wonder why I stayed. There are many reasons why, so many I need to break them up into separate posts. Here’s one reason: I stayed because I had extremely low self-esteem and believed everything bad he said about me before he even said it. [...]
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