Laboring to Love an Abusive Mate

The following is a list of items individuals and groups can use to spread the word about domestic violence.  Consider these tools when organizing an event, teaching classes, speaking and more.  People need to know that domestic violence happens every nine seconds.  Most cases go unreported.  The impact of family violence on other family members is long-lasting and may continue on affecting other generations.  Stop the violence, don't enable it! Books Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men Socially Sweet, Privately Cruel Abusive Men She's Crazy - battered men Movies Every 9 Seconds Shattered Dreams Music No Harm Done (Songs Against Domestic Violence) Rise Up Against Domestic Violence Through Music Vol. 1 Jewelry PinMart's Purple Ribbon Survivor Pin Domestic Violence Silicone Bracelet Domestic Violence Awareness Shirt

Praying, wishing, hoping, loving, and wanting your partner to change, you believe that love is the cure all.  You believe that if you just do everything right that the relationship experts say, your mother tells you, and of course the abuser, that all will be okay. How much more money do you have to spend to buy peace in your household? How often do you have to sexually please him/her? What entertainment do you have to provide? Where do you have to go and what do you have to do to ensure the abuser doesn't blow up on you? The extent that a victim will go just to appease an emotionally or physically abusive partner would leave outsiders speechless. No matter what you do for someone who has many unresolved past issues will never be good enough.  It doesn't take much to awaken the demon within.  Love won't keep the abusive man or woman from cursing, acting threatening, or even hitting you, the pet, or doing something else to get his or her aggression out. How many...

I have had the blessing and the curse of having some very straightforward people in my social circles over decades.  The kind of men and women who give you the truth with no chaser.  "Look your boyfriend is ugly...I don't know what you see in him.  Stop dating broke men!  You are better than that..."  Can I say you need bold people like that around you until you are back on your feet again? As you progress, you might want to lose them, because negative people have their share of baggage and after awhile you outgrow them.  Anyway... Look, I have been transparent for years all around the web and shared my testimony of freedom, peace and increase after coming out of a very bad relationship over a couple decades ago and another mentally draining one soon after that.  I personally want abused men and women to win!  Use their mistakes in life to propel them, but not continue to allow poor decisions to suffocate, bind, and rob them of better lives in t...