Its a Lie He Will Do It Again Tumblr Bruised and Bleeding Body
"I recollect once standing in the shower with my caput against the wall, the tears streaming down. I was broken in half, the months upon months of anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, constant diarrhea considering my body was screaming to exit. The two images stuck in my brain included the tiny mole on your pinky finger and how I hated to think of another woman loving it as much as I did. The other image flickering through my mind was when yous punched me so hard I couldn't close my oral cavity for a calendar week. That paw with the sweetness pinky mole brought me frozen peas and broccoli to attempt and bring the swelling down and I don't know how to process the dichotomy of those ii extremes in 1 human being. The two extremes of how you lot loved me and then gently, and too tore my soul to shreds so easily. How could you be both those things in 1 human being – and how could I dearest someone who healed me, and hurt me, all in the same movements.
It'due south difficult to put into words how difficult it was to larn why so many people don't leave when the two images in your brain are such polar opposites that it rips your middle out of your body and also shames your middle out of your own being. I'k a strong, confident, established woman, yet here I am, under blankets, with ice on my face being held by the man I was going to marry. Ane thing and so cute, one thing so frightening. The choice isn't as easy as y'all may think it is. I wish I could say I left right away – but I didn't. Those profound bonds that brand you cry in the shower months later over some other person perchance loving the man attached to a pinky finger, are the same bonds that make you telephone call your best friend on the floor of your closet, crying, proverb, 'He swears he won't exercise it over again. He's broken over this. I deserved it. It'southward okay. My jaw isn't bruisedthatbadly. I'm certain a liquid nutrition will be skillful for me… right?' That bond is scary. You detest the abuse. But y'all promise… incessantly, recklessly, that the man you lot honey, will wake upwards one day, changed. And that hope can be powerful in staying. Even when your friends, your family, your therapist, fifty-fifty your torso and the physical signs of dorsum pain, a horrible digestive organisation, and no desire for sex with that person, tell yous to exit. That smoke and mirrors hope, distorts it all.
That aforementioned pinky finger I had such a soft spot for was likewise the one that came together with four other fingers and made itself into a fist that left my jaw bruised and never quite the aforementioned. I was never quite the same. I wrestled with myself more than than I did with him. He didn't mean it. I made him angry. He had been drinking. He was stressed. I stayed. Only, 'dear isn't supposed to hurt' I thought. I stayed for months subsequently, waiting for another blow. Waiting for him to exist gentle, kind and safe.
Neither came. And it didn't take another blow for me to wake upwards i mean solar day, and realize the hope I'd had for him, for the states, was nothing but a delusion. I was sitting at work, reading through 500 pages of training to start volunteering at a domestic violence shelter. And I could feel the tears coming. I could experience my face reddening. I felt exposed.
This is me. These are the lies I've told myself. These are the cycles. These…women…. are me. And so, I left. And stumbled out. I saw him again. I kissed him again. I picked up his calls and his texts and tried to forgive him. It wasn't a make clean break, I didn't know how to practice it any other way. Only I slowly walked myself out and picked up the pieces of honey and acrimony and all the juxtaposition inside of myself regarding what dearest, and beingness hurt, and driveling looked similar. And I sifted it like sand. Terrified. Screaming. Crying out for what had been stolen in my dearest and my confusion of hope for him. Strong women held me together as I felt like I was being ripped apart. They showed me gentleness and that sometimes rage was necessary. They kissed my jaw and head and didn't judge. They listened and even when they didn't sympathize, gave me more than pity than I deserved.
Information technology's so easy to guess until y'all're there. So piece of cake to misunderstand until you're there. I remember hearing women's stories of domestic violence and being like, 'Come on! I'd leave SO FAST.' And and then information technology was me, with cold packs, and peas, and a straw to potable from. Then it wasn't quite every bit piece of cake as I thought information technology would be, from before my jaw was unhinged. Information technology's easy to have an stance until its real life standing in forepart of you. It'southward easy to know what y'all'd do, until you actually have to make that choice.
I work with domestic violence victims now, I see my own reflection in their eyes far too well. I know the desperation for peace, the agony to simply be loved easily by their significant other. I have had that ache. I remember that place of crying out in the shower, clawing at your own skin wishing you could tear yourself out of your ain body of confusion. And I have lived through what it feels like to exit, rebuild and still once in a while, feel that jaw pain, that's never quite healed.
Be tender with each other. Have grace for the ones whose journeys don't make sense to you. Information technology probably doesn't brand sense to them either. We all need more beloved than nosotros fifty-fifty know how to admit. I hope this experience has softened me, perchance that'southward the most beautiful piece available to you lot to take for your ain after something unjust and painful and unfair – a deeper level of softness, towards yourself, and others.
I struggled to write this. Feeling like my story wasn't bad enough/traumatic enough/vehement enough to warrant my voice towards it. But I also know that there is room for all stories at the table. No matter what, it inverse me, awakened me, scarred me and softened me. Your story is yours – with its horror, with its sadness and beauty and redemption and softening – don't exclude yourself from telling it. It needs to be heard, even if yous wrestle with its value the mode I did. Perhaps, only maybe, one person will hear it and not experience quite so alone."
Read more stories from mettlesome women leaving abusive relationships:
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'My boyfriend closed-fist punched me in the face, knocking me off my feet. My 230-pound boyfriend split open up my face. The by 6 months of my life take felt similar a slow torture.'
[If you need assistance, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 or visitthehotline.org to live conversation with someone 24/vii. Assistance is out at that place and y'all are not alone.]
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