At Least He Wasn’t Hitting You
If this book were a movie, it would definitely be a thriller! A compelling narrative that would grip both your heart and your soul, it would evoke in you the deepest emotions as well as the most disturbing questions about what makes and what could ever possibly unmake the humanity of a person.
The title of the story says it all: “At Least He Wasn’t Hitting You”. It’s as though the very consolation that can ever be offered is also the most ironic statement of them all. When a woman marries a man that verbally abuses her, berates her and destroys every inch of her self-worth, damaging her for the rest of her life, what could possibly be there at all to find consolation in?
As the unnamed heroine of the story says herself, “It is different when scars are invisible. The damage is within.” And quite often, the inner damage is more difficult to heal.
It is in this very difficulty that we see the true courage of the heroine here, of the woman who was able to overcome her fears so she can finally escape from the horrendous relationship she had for ten years.
Some people may then ask, “What took her so long? Why did she stay that long in a relationship that bad?” Here is where we find wisdom in trying to search for answers, and in truth, there are no easy answers. What we are given is the truth that it isn’t easy trying to liberate oneself from such an abusive relationship. It isn’t easy because people adapt and the most terrifying things don’t happen all at once. Some catastrophes indeed happen gradually until it’s almost too late to escape from them.
To finally find the strength to let go is something that will evoke our awe at the tenacity of the human soul. It is here that we find hope, not only for the woman in the story, but for countless other women, named and unnamed, who have suffered the same fate and who have found the courage to seek freedom and healing. Women, who, despite everything that happened were able to find a new beginning that they definitely deserve.
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At Least He Wasn’t Hitting You…: A Personal Memoir of Abuse and Survival.
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