Beyond the Sparkle
There's something more important than whether they love you: a safe environment for you and your family. Your health and well-being matter.
In their own words
"I just wanted to stick with my position, but after that, my emotions took over.
A lot of time your emotions completely override logic. And that's just what it was you know."
"No one really cared for me or really took that much of an interest in me..."
"It took me a really long time to leave him."
"What is my option if there's no affordable housing in the community?
My option is to go back to him."
"Whenever I talk to my family, they always ask me what I did, what I did to make him do it. Not why he felt he had to hit me. Someone should ask him why he felt he had a right to control me? to hit me?"
"I just thought it was kind of sweet how he was calling me all the time and texting me. He wanted to know everything about me."
"Because I'm a man, my friends expected me to fight her back. But I knew if I fought her back I could be arrested."
"I just felt like okay, we knew each other from jail. Things would change once we were on the outside. They got worse."
"People don't think women can be abusive, or that someone younger can abuse someone older.
But they can. It was embarrassing to say that my wife was slapping me. I wish I had called the cops."
"People don't think women can be abusive, or that someone younger can abuse someone older.
But they can. It was embarrassing to say that my wife was slapping me. I wish I had called the cops."
"I wish everyone knew that I know I'm in danger, but I also know that I don't want there to be more violence when I leave."
"He was saying that he would kill me, he would hurt the kids. I was just thinking that no one could help. I had to protect my kids."
"I don't want pity. I just want him to stop hitting me. The counselor lady said, well what can you do if he doesn't stop hitting you. That's when I started making my safety plan."
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