The stats are that 1 out of every 3 women and 1 out of every 4 men are victims of some form of abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime. That's crazy to think about, isn't it? In theory, that means one third of all the women and one fourth of all the men that you know have been abused. With how disgustingly common abuse is today, one would hope others would be familiar enough with it to know how to talk to an abuse survivor without causing further hurt and shame to them or that we would be equipped to help encourage a friend to leave an abusive relationship. But all too often, that's not the case. It's still "hush-hush" - a taboo subject. Most of us hardly know how to respond if someone just tells us they had a bad day. We feel uncomfortable and don't know what to say or how to comfort them. So hearing someone we know and love has been a victim of abuse ?... Well how do we even begin to handle that? What do we say? I'll get to that in a
"She wasn't born Her. She found Her over a long, treacherous road. And the more treacherous the road became, the more of Her she found." -atticus