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Should You Stay?
Sometimes people reach out to others wanting to know, "Should I just leave?" Of course you should if someone is abusing you or you simply feel like you can't go on with that person. But we advisers aren't in the hurting person's shoes. The one who can best answer that question is the one who has to live in that household each and everyday with that toxic guy or gal. If you are offended when someone "tells it like it is" then you most likely aren't ready to leave. Some victims simply can't handle the fact that they made a lousy choice when they married, had sex, or had a baby with a partner. So as long as you are defending, denying, and blaming, you won't leave--you are there to stay. Sometimes the abused isn't who or what you think. For years, I have posted my personal experiences and opinion about abusive relationships and for years people have come to this site and blindly scrolled through the entries pretending as if my bo