Abused?
Me?
I thought this
was something that only happened to women who were poor, uneducated
or a minority. I was none of those things. But it happened to me. The
onset was so subtle and gradual I didn’t recognize it. In the
end it almost killed me, if not physically, spiritually. God does not
want His daughters to be abused! The Bible tells us that as Christians
we are coheirs with Christ (Ro 8:16) and that makes us royal
princesses,
ladies!
Many women
think that since their partner doesn’t hit them that they are not
abused
or that even if they do think they are abused that nobody will take
them seriously. WRONG! WRONG! There is also verbal, emotional, sexual
and economic abuse to name a few. These forms of abuse are all just
as damaging as physical abuse. Many experts agree that the verbal abuse
is more harmful than the actual physical abuse because the physical
scars
eventually heal, but emotional scars are deep and may linger long after
the relationship itself has ended.
For me, memories
of the physical abuse I was able to remember from my previous marriage
eventually faded. But the damage from
the verbal and emotional abuse was present for a long time and almost
killed me-perhaps not so much in the physical sense as in the
spiritual. I thought I was worthless, ugly, disgusting, stupid and even
worse
things I cannot remember at this time. My beloved Husband has worked
so long and hard to gently and lovingly ‘correct’ that image of myself
I have even forgotten what some of the words were!
If
you'd
like
to write to gentle^spirit, click here.
If
you feel you are in an abusive relationship, get help now!
You can take the first step by calling the National Domestic
Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) (TDD 1-800-787-3224) or go
to http://www.ndvh.org .
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