***This particular feature offers a specific, raw example of abuse that may make some uncomfortable and prove a trigger for others. Still I share, because it’s someone’s truth — the truth of many, actually — …
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| Survivor Snapshot | Broken in the Bedroom
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| Survivor Snapshot | Fun for Him, Financial Abuse for Her
“I couldn’t come home from the store with something ‘frivolous’ (like a new shower curtain) without getting a lecture and guilt trip about spending money, but he would buy whatever he wanted, including big ticket …
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| Survivor Snapshot | On Being the Fox
“After my divorce from my cheating, narcisstic husband, a friend told me a slightly different take on the scorpion and the fox fable. In this story, the fox had watched earlier as the scorpion hitched …
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SUBMISSIONS WANTED: Survivor Snapshots
Send a photo of yourself. Just your hands or hair, a foot or something fun. An inanimate object. Get creative, all I ask is that your face isn’t revealed from the front or in full. …
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I Am Determined…
to look in the mirror and go easy on myself, and see my beauty. (Rather than be disappointed by the blemishes, the too-large pores, the eyebrows that “need” tweaked, the chin under my chin, the …
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Consent Before Submission
TRIGGER WARNING! It’s possible a woman who believes this is being brainwashed, treated as an object and servant, and her own thoughts and needs are completely dismissed and disrespected. A man who leads his wife …
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After Emotional Abuse: From Mind Games to Child’s Play
Say when you were married to your emotional abuser, he’d refuse to wear a wedding ring. (Or lose one/multiples on purpose.) It was an attempt to hurt you, a mind game played to minimize a …
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Could Feminism Erase Abuse Toward Women?
Truth: Things like belief in rigid gender roles and negative views toward women can be precursors to and are warning signs of domestic abuse. Until there is a wider understanding that women are just as …
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Just Say No to ’50 Shades’
Mayim Bialik — yep, of both Blossom and The Big Bang Theory fame — shares a powerful point in an essay, linked below, and that point is why I won’t read or watch the 50 Shades …
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Changed: Reminder Around My Neck
I have a fair assortment of necklaces, most special for some reason or another, but I always seem to favor this one. Wear it nearly every day. There’s an Origami Owl locket, gifted by a …
