The Other Victims Of Domestic Violence

rss@dailykos.com (Susan Grigsby), Daily Kos
Sun, 10/04/2015 - 8:00am

Last week I wrote about my own experience as a victim of domestic violence. In that essay I wrote that my experience was "so typical. So ordinary and so common." And it was. My abuser followed the steps from loving attention to physical violence as if he had a road map. If you met me in a group of people, I would be the last one you would believe could have been caught up in such a relationship.

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