Hi Jillius
I have never, and would never, be in a violent relationship such as this. I have however been best friends with someone who was and to be honest after a while it became difficult to feel sorry for her. She was offered advise, help, support, but would she take it? NO.
She put up with the beatings time and time again convinced that he wouldn't do it again and that if she hadn't done this or hadn't said that then it wouldn't have happened.
How many trips to the A&E department does it take before you realise that being used as a punchbag is not love?
He was a small, pathetic, often drunk, excuse for a man and only bullied and hit her because he knew he could.
She let him get away with it and he knew that in the morning when he denied remembering what he had done she would make him his breakfast and act as if nothing had happened.
I'm afraid her bruises said differently.