Tag Archives: emotional abuse
Guest Post: How I Overcame My Abuse
For the first of hopefully many Guest Posts, please welcome Twindaddy, writer of humor, honest self-reflection, and stuph™ over at Stuphblog (go take a gander, and while you’re there, click that blog-happy Follow button). And, before you begin this story, I would like to say thank you to Twindaddy for sharing his journey to freedom. It […]
Growing Abuse
It started as a simple little comment: I wonder how long my hair would get if I stopped cutting it while I’m pregnant. What resulted was not simple. I am and always have been a short hair kind of gal. I had long hair until I was 11 when I had it all cut off. […]
In the dark
I feel like it’s been a week since I’ve written. Oh, wait…it has been a week. The kids and I have had a blast playing, reading, laughing, hugging, loving, and altogether enjoying every single waking minute of our time. Thankfully Donkey has only bothered to call once and only skyped once. He originally wanted to […]
Entitled to an opinion that doesn’t matter
At first it was a request to relocate to Atlanta: the kids need to spend more time with you. That was December. I didn’t trust it then, and I was right not to. I was clear with him about the lack of trust and what relocation would not be met with an objection. Then the story […]
Some Anniversaries Shouldn’t Be Celebrated
Today is the three year anniversary of the day I woke up to the abuse I had suffered for five years. In total now, I have suffered almost eight years of abuse by Donkey. I will suffer another 15 years of abuse. In 15 years and 3 months, my youngest will be 18 and graduating […]
