How Relationship Abuse Affects Others

I received a very involved story from a Facebook friend. He explained a situation with his BFF, who was a female. The direction that her life went and all of the events that had occurred was very appalling and horrific to me. It was like reading a horror film script, but then I realized… this actually happened! She was described as “a strong ass woman,” but has been married to an extremely abusive multiple felon for 29 years. She grew up in a house with multiple serious mental health issues, was abandoned once and then put into foster care for a decade. She did eventually escape at 16 years old after finally being reclaimed at 12 years old. She was described as having nothing but a string of horrible relationships with both men and women. When she did occasionally leave her husband, she always went back to him. Four out of her five kids were conceived through rape.

The man desired to put a stop immediately to the events that transpired in his BFF’s life, but she had several disadvantages in her life as she was growing up and she had a pattern of horrible relationships. She was described as never healing from the events that had happened in her past, which probably led her to feeling powerless and overwhelmed from feeling out of control in her life.

The man that had described his story to me said that if he wouldn’t have lost track of her at 16 years old that he would’ve put a stop to it immediately. He told me that he wanted women to know they can get out and learn the warning signs of an abusive relationship. The…