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Kathleen Hobbs's avatar

The story really touched me as I can really relate

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Karen's avatar

“Because these were my models for what ‘normal’ male attention looked like, I believed abuse was love. I thought marriage was an arrangement where a woman signs away her body for use by a man who has no interest in her as a human being…”

So powerful - so glad you found counter examples in your life; it is hard to see them sometimes, even when they are right before our eyes.

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