| I am a survivor of Domestic Violence, and am alive today only because I left my abusive husband. This was my second marriage, and only lasted for 8 months. The abuse started 1 month after we had said our vows. At first it was the mental abuse in the way of "slurs" and isolation from my family on the west coast, my friends and co- workers and even his own family. I was slapped, beaten, kicked and literally terrorized by this man that was supposed to be my husband. After the last incident of abuse that landed me in the hospital with broken ribs, a broken collarbone. a wrist broken in 4 places and very mentally unstable I decided that I had enough. The night I left I had only $20 to my name and the clothes on my back. I went to the Womens Shelter in the next town, and once inside the doors, I cried like a child from the relief that I was in a safe place and away from my abusive husband. I had taken the FIRST step to rebuilding my life My Road to recovery was not an easy one in any way. The first thing I felt that I needed to do was bring charges against my abuser as I later found out this was not the first time he had abused a wife. He abused and tramatized his first wife for almost 6 yrs, and not once did she ever bring charges against him. She just left the marriage. I brought charges of aggravated assault, battery and assalt with a deadly weapon against my abusive husband and when he was arrested his mother bailed him out of jail. She told me that if I would just keep my mouth shut and not talk back to him then I would never be in the situation I was in.... EXCUSE ME but no woman deserves to be abused either mentally of physically. When I was in court and had to see my husband, once again I cried like a child, and shook from head to foot, as I was still afraid of him, even though I was in a safe place. The judge sentenced him to 2 years in prison, but to me this WAS NOT enough for the pain and suffering I had gone through. I knew that I was NEVER GOING BACK. So now the rebuilding of my life has begun |
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