Debra McFarland
“I wanted someone to love, and someone who would love me. I was vulnerable. Classic – I was attracted to men who abused me. All I had known was abuse growing up, and I didn’t feel I deserved any better as I grew older. It’s a classis lie from the devil. It’s a total and complete lie … I know now. I just didn’t know it then.”
Brenda Helzer
“At that time, I was 16, married and a mom… My husband was abusive and also an alcoholic… During that five years with this man, my daughter and I were exposed to horrific mental and physical abuse…”
Joyce Lock
“Thus, my concept of God gradually developed to envision a monster that couldn't wait for me to mess up, so He could hit me over the head. And, I was sure that is what happened when my marriage turned into an abusive nightmare.”
“Marie”
”I was living with a boyfriend who would physically abuse me, and a couple of times had the ambulance come out to assist my wounds. I went through this for 3 years with him.. The torment of that relationship was so overwhelming that I began to lose my sanity.”
Christina Zakrzewski
“I became pregnant with my daughter a week after he moved in. The next couple of years really are hard for me to think and talk about. They were very dark and scary years. There was a lot of physical abuse, and emotionally, I think I had to become completely numb to survive.”
Lisa Walker
“I will never forget the night that my stepfather came home drinking and beat my mother in the stomach. He slammed me against the wall when I tried to make him stop and he left. My baby brother was born in the hospital the next day two months prematurely. My stepfather never showed up until days later.”
Andrea Do Santos
“When they were together my father was physically and emotionally abusive to my mother, my brother and me. Mother was not very strong emotionally and suffered from a mental illness, and because of this, I felt she was never there for me.”
Star Burch
“My ex hurt me so I decided subconsciously I was going to hurt my current girlfriend. So much happened, so very much in-between the times I cheated, the many times we broke up, the times I abused her verbally, emotionally and it was getting to a point where I began to physically abuse her.”
Evelyn Partlow (2)
“I learned that not all families are like the Walton’s… My marriage ended very abruptly and very violently in 1985. I took my son and we started over.”