Do you know someone who is abused or are you abused?
Signs of abuse:
- Jealousy
- Isolation
- Control
- Unexplained bruises
- Double talk
The last one, double talk, needs explanation. I asked a woman whom I was good friends with if I could stop by her house and drop off a copy of a book she wanted. She began to stammer and her eyes shifted around. She said, she was busy, and then, started to explain. I told her not to worry. At work, we were best of friends, but she avoided any contact with her home life.
I didn't think much of it at the time, but about a month later, her husband nearly beat her to death sending her headlong into the corner of their brick home. Her two teenage boys intervened, and saved her, but she has never been the same, and neither have her sweet boys. They both became angry and one has done time in jails for drugs.
I recently reported an incident of suspected abuse on a Christian website of a teen. He told my daughter of his abusive father, and asked that she not tell anyone. She told me, and I reported it to the site.
Please help stop abuse. There is help for you. If you need help, email me and I'll help you anyway I can. As you may know, my daughter was adopted and was horribly abused. It seems to be my mission in life, and I'm not afraid to get involved, so please ask if you need help or just need to talk.
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Comments: 23
Very scary. Great topic and thanks for the awareness.
you are an angel for tyring to help people!
I was married while in College the first time to a man who not only was physically abusive but also psychologically abusive. I had never experienced any of this behaviour before from any man let alone my Dad so my Parents rescued me from him. It took me many years of psychotherapy to get over his abuse.
Now 23, years later I got together with a man (8 years ago) who is not only abusive to me psychologically speaking but also an alcoholic. I had never known an alcoholic and here I am in this space in time where I need to leave. Out of the five reasons listed above in your post, the only thing that I don't experience with him are the bruises. Sometimes I wish I would get the bruises because this way he is just tearing me down and apart at the seams. I find it very difficult to live under the same roof with him but do plan on leaving him within the next few months as we are busy selling off community property and making arrangements with finances.
In the interim I must put up with him on a constant basis with the battering I receive from his mouth. As soon as he has a couple of beers under his belt the mouth starts moving and I am left to be torn apart once more piece by piece...
Thanks for listening.
...it can be really hard to get out of that situation. Especially if someone is telling you how you are lucky you even have them in your life, how there is no way you're worth anything better, and that you don't even deserve them, but they stay with you because they feel sorry for you, stuff like that...
Abuse is a sticky situation. I've been there. It's hard to get out.
Another is how to determine if a potential spouse is likely to be an abuser. I don't know what signs to look for, but I sure wish that I did.
I started it as an open group. but found things being posted not pertaining to it's very serious purpose. So, now it is moderated. But, please, join us and bring any prayer requests up. I know there are others there who will pray and believe God.