I questioned her about why she didn’t break up with her boyfriend, Kevin, who frequently harmed her verbally and physically.
Throughout my childhood, I asked hundreds of times, another question, but this one was exclusive to me: “How could I get him to stop hurting her?”
JANA KRAMER REPORTS THAT BLAKE LIVELY’S ‘IT ENDS WITH US’ REGARDING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: “IT DOES CATEGORY YOU.”
The greatest response my mother could give me was, “That was the best I thought I could do, and I did not want to be alone.” I told myself, “Keep trying everything you can,” in response.
I discovered years later that the questions I was posing were inappropriate. “What do you call it when you grow up witnessing domestic violence?” was the appropriate question to pose.
“When you grow up witnessing domestic violence.” similar to how the protagonist of “It Ends With Us” did. similar to how I did. similar to how my mother did. Indeed, just as Kevin did.
Because we would have had a term for it if we had known that childhood domestic violence (CDV) is what happens to victims of domestic abuse as they grow up.
