| I think people stay in abusive relationships because | | | | been abused, but if you are being abused or have |
| over time they get used to it. A person gets used to | | | | been you will know what I mean. |
| being abused and thinks that it is normal. | | | | Without your mind being right you will never leave. |
| Well, it is not. | | | | You will just take the abuse until one of you dies. |
| What helped me to realize that the verbal abuse I | | | | I was lucky, I had just enough free time to read all |
| suffered under from my wife was not normal was | | | | about the different problems in an abusive |
| reading about how it was not normal. | | | | relationship and take them to heart. I did do this over |
| I never talked to anyone about how she was | | | | a period of years though. I suffered all that time. I do |
| treating me until I had read about it and started to | | | | not want you to spend years in a bad marriage. I |
| think that I was being abused. | | | | want you to get out now. |
| I was so ashamed to be in the situation I was in. | | | | Read this article and others like it. You do not have |
| What gave me strength was reading articles on-line | | | | to stay in an abusive relationship. |
| and books in the bookstore and library. The stuff I | | | | Let my suffering be my gift to you. |
| read was how being treated badly was not good for | | | | I did not want to write about or talk about the |
| a person. | | | | verbal abuse I went through. |
| This may seem obvious to you if you have never | | | | |