Last night, I attended the Douglas County Domestic Violence Candlelight Vigil. In 2013 alone, thirty six individuals who lived in Georgia lost their lives due to domestic violence. Love does not have to hurt or leave physical or emotional scars. Love does not have to control you to the point of suffocation. Love does not install fears in your life and the lives of your children. Love does not degrade you. Below is a woman who told she said enough because she saw the lasting pain of domestic violence.
When will you say enough?
Enough
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No longer will I be a victim.
No more will I endure the pain.
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Never again will I allow him to hurt me or call out my name.
For years I lived in the dark.
Hiding black eyes and blood stained swollen lips,
And to think that this started with a simple twisting of the hips.
No, I was never hurt physically by the hand of the man I loved so dearly.
But I can honestly say that I feel your pain.
I felt the pain through her as she lay gasping for air in her front yard.
As he publicly shot and beat her until she had nothing left.
You see,
I like her never knew I could be better than he told me I could be.
I never knew the love I had was so valuable,
And that my dreams could be reality.
No.
My reality was this fiery pit that I was, and had been stuck for years.
My dreams deferred,
Had rotted a long time ago.
As I became enslaved, I had no thoughts of my own.
Always wondering, how could I get out if I was all alone?
But God showed me truth,
That I could be set free.
And I was not the only one experiencing this life of lost dreams.
Many women in the world have felt this “need” that is really misuse.
And many lives have been changed by this “love” called abuse.
– Tanisha L. R. Hudson.
Married, Dating, Men, Women. No matter your relationship status. Abuse is not love. It is bondage. Free yourself today or help someone get out of the bondage. Say enough for your sister, for your brother, for your children and for yourself. Enough.
Resource: National Domestic Violence Hotline 1-800-799-7233
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