Thank you for visiting, my name is Mel and I am a domestic abuse survivor.
My abuser accepted no responsibilities for his actions, as such I was left feeling like I was going crazy! Living in the farming community and being isolated meant that nobody heard my cries, my rants of frustration, nobody saw, I was invisible. In my case my abuse was mainly verbal, I was actually goaded into taking an overdose while he filmed it and laughed!! - its not all kicks and punches! You need to understand "why don't you just leave" is the easiest thing to say, realising that the victim, in most cases loves the perpetrator and lives under the belief "they will change" is not so easy to understand. Hold their hand, be a shoulder, have an open door, support, in time they will leave, in time they will mend, but "why don't you just leave" will push them away from help.
So after 200 plus times of being put on the streets & sleeping in a derelict barn for asking the wrong question!! I am now looking to purchase a property to create a "safe space" in the community for women and children to escape to, no women or child should ever not have somewhere to go, should never be isolated, should never have their cries not heard, should never be made to feel so worthless that staying or ending your life is the only choices