I learned a tough lesson as I went through my divorce: "Don't make your healing dependent on the one who hurt you". Even after I "learned" this truth, unwittingly I fell into the trap over and over again. We can all easily fall prey to this mindset, but as long as we are there we… Continue reading The Fallacy of Making Our Healing Dependent On Those Who Hurt Us
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Stunned Again
I have been thinking a lot about a strange phenomenon happening to those of us who have been in abusive marriages. It took me 3 years to leave my abuser. And I still struggle with the terms "abuser" or "abuse". It is foreign to my ears because he wasn't my "abuser" for 11 - 12… Continue reading Stunned Again
