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Secrets of the Bending Grove
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2014
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Do battered women not have families?
I am very triggered by horrific news items on domestic violence. I first wrote about my family’s encounter with domestic violence in 2012, and I still stand by all the points I made.
What I am coming to stress now, with no apologies, is the need for family and community support for battered women, particularly within African societies where families take such pride in a woman’s married status, as i
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“But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.”
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
“We, who had no designated safe havens where we could carry our vomit for other people to clean up for us — who were too urgently needed to afford to pause for occasional maintenance, too dignified to succumb to emotional fatigue — not for us the overpaid charlatans disguised as therapists, who would only poke at our scabs and suck our money. No. We, the unbreakable ones, we ourselves were all the therapy that we needed.”
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
“But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.”
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
“We, who had no designated safe havens where we could carry our vomit for other people to clean up for us — who were too urgently needed to afford to pause for occasional maintenance, too dignified to succumb to emotional fatigue — not for us the overpaid charlatans disguised as therapists, who would only poke at our scabs and suck our money. No. We, the unbreakable ones, we ourselves were all the therapy that we needed.”
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
― Secrets of the Bending Grove
