If your partner is displaying a combination of these behaviors, you may have a potential violent person on your hands. This list is adapted from “Signs to Look for in a Battering Personality,” from the Project for Victims of Family Violence, Fayetteville, Arkansas, and can be found at the archive of ARMS (Abuse Recovery Ministry… Continue reading Signs of an abusive relationship — where the abuse is hard to recognize
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That fake smile I pasted on
I tried to fake it 'til I made it. I really did. I was looking through old pictures trying to find something. In all the pictures with X I look like there's a thumbtack in my shoe. I have such a grimace of a smile. I still remember the sick feeling in my stomach that… Continue reading That fake smile I pasted on