When Everything Looks Fine On The Surface – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The inability to receive support from others is a trauma response. Your “I don’t need anyone” or “I’ll just do it myself” is a survival tactic. It’s needed to shield…

Just a man – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

This one goes out to someone I always had a lot of respect for until today. Maybe you all get caught up in the hype, I don’t know. Nether you…

The Funding Crisis for Domestic Violence Shelters: A Call to Action

Domestic violence can take any form namely psychological abuse, forced intercourse, physical aggression as well as other controlling behaviors. The negative impacts of domestic violence can have physical, mental, and…

All that’s left is the sex

It’s a strange paradox when you consider how everyone around you is on this quest for happiness, yet going to great lengths to ensure they find misery and pain. Constant states…

Sound of Silence – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

I do not really know whether he will survives. I don’t know if I will in the end either. I think the only difference between back then and now was a moment…

Swan Dives and Making Love Like Friends Shouldn’t Do – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

I’ve done a fairly good job of fooling everyone into believing that I am a cold person. Some may even be under the impression that I simply don’t feel certain emotions…

Turns out my ‘universe’ and I might share the same sense of humour – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Quite a few years ago now I realised that even though my experience has cost me the last 7 years with my son, that in fact I got exactly what…

This one is for you – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

This one goes out to someone I used to know and someone I will unfortunately have in my life forever. I say that but I wouldn’t change you because it…

Hard times create strong men – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

It’s interesting to me how so many people seem to believe that the human race is the most hard done by in 2024.   The strangest part is most of them…

Everything that goes up – DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

The truth is you hate the life you chose for yourself, you are not a victim, not at all. You are incapable of facing the fact that you’ve wasted your…