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WHY DO WOMEN STAY?
In the Beginning: Often, the mental and physical abuse starts subtly, gradually. You are confused, wondering what is happening to you. You may even have the social and financial backup you need to start over. So the conundrum trails back to one puzzling question; Why do you stay? Perhaps it is the fear of being…
Gaslighting: The Subtle Bane in Relations:
(– A critique based on a true story as told by *Jacqui Osmond.) “My husband was a repeat offender in the cheating department. Whenever I confronted him about his philandering, he would gaslight me. I got tired of trying to be reasonable with him. My career involved a lot of traveling. One day I left…
Crystal’s Story
When I first sat down with Crystal it was with a view to get some information with respect to her level of education and what she wanted to do with her life at the age of 30. She is the mother of 3 children by three different fathers, and she is at the battered women’s…
DAUGHTER OF EVE
I CAN SAVE HIM I CAN BRING HIM TO A PLACE… BE THE SPACE HE NEEDS TO FACE HIS DEMONS HIS TORMENT AND GLADIATOR, DEFEAT THEM ALL I KNOW THIS I CAN DO THIS I CAN BE HIS SHIELD HIS BREASTPLATE BE IT MY FATE, TO TAKE THE BLOWS SOMETIMES BE THE IMAGE OF HIS…
Rising Above Grief
When tragedy strikes, it is virtually impossible to feel anything but intense grief, anger, and hopelessness. How can we rationalise or make sense of the brutal and violent end to a young person’s life? The family of Ashanti Riley is grappling with such questions after her untimely and horrific end. It is alleged that Ms…
Why My Mother Stayed
As I sat to recount the story of our lives, my mother and me, and how we have come to be, the anxiety that followed became almost unbearable. For weeks I toiled, paragraph over paragraph, trying to account for my father’s actions, tell my mother’s story, and to understand my life more clearly through this…
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