Mkittysamom’s Reviews > No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us > Status Update
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“Rocky would sometimes take the kids away from Michelle if he was angry at her. He’d disappear with them for hours, take them to the movies, camping, or wherever, and Michelle would be stuck there at home,... and the kids became pawns, a way for him to keep her obedient, conciliatory. A way for him to make sure she didn’t leave...He didn’t need to hit her. He had all the control he required.”
— Jan 18, 2021 09:56AM
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Mkittysamom
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“She was determined that her children would not grow up in what she called a “broken home.” And this is one of those impossible equations that every parent tries to calculate in some measure: is it worse for the kids to have an imperfect parent—in Rocky’s case abusive, addicted to meth—than to have no parent at all?”
— Jan 18, 2021 09:44AM
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“ Kit Gruelle, an activist in North Carolina, calls such victims “passive hostages” in their own homes. Stark insists we look beyond just physical injury as a sign of extreme domestic violence;... And ultimately, coercive control is about stealing someone’s freedom entirely.” *That hits home.. that’s me in a nutshell, not that anyone would believe it. No one ever does anything, I don’t have a PHYSICAL Bruise!*
— Jan 18, 2021 09:35AM
