Domestic Violence, There is no poster child for it.

Tomorrow is volunteer day at one of the local women’s shelters. I know sadly, very well what they’re going through. I’m hoping that they can see from me and other volunteers whom have been in similar situations that there IS light at the end of the tunnel. I know I am still wrestling with the demons of what he’s done to me and others, but I’m getting there.

I also realized that Coward married a woman who is no better than Todd Akin, U.S. Representative, Missouri  whom believes that women don’t get pregnant if it’s legitimate rape.   Coward’s wife's logic is; it’s not abuse if you stayed. It’s not abuse if you lived with him for a long time, short time, a weekend? It’s not abuse, because she won’t have it. Deny it all you both want, it happened. It happened, it happened.

I am educated, live a nice life and have a wonderful spouse and children. I know that to most people I am NOT the face of domestic violence. Guess what, there’s not a certain type of person this happens to, it can happen to anyone. Below is a TED conference on Domestic Violence, from( GASP) an educated successful woman! Her degress blow me out of the water, and most people for that matter. Her story is very similar to mine, because if you would have told me that the same man who sent me flowers weekly, wrote me love letters, spoiled me, would one day tell me what to wear, what not to wear (bras and panties under dresses to church especially!) where I could work, where I could go, what I could spend money on, push me, choke me, humiliate me, and so on. I would have called you a liar.

Please watch this video, and know that you’re not alone.