Abusive relationships

United States
November 12, 2008 4:40pm CST
Have you ever been in an abusive relationship? I have. I'm convinced that my ex is the devil himself. At first the relationship wasn't violent, he was just verbally and emotionally abusive and I highly suspect a big time cheater. Towards the last year that we were together he started getting very violent towards me, in front of my children and everything. Has has fractured bones in my arm, my ribs, and cracked my head open on a wall. The last 6 or 7 years of my life have been a nightmare. We broke up in March or April of this year and i'm now feeling better. The part that I hate is that I have 2 children with this guy and still have to occasionally talk to him. In the beginning of the relationship, I ignored all the warning signs and refused to listen to all my friends who said "don't mess with that guy". He has tried to run me over with 2 different vehicles and forced me to take pills which resulted in me being admitted to the hospital for 4 days, that's in addition to him splitting my head open 1/4" inch away from the temple. This man has almost killed me before. For anybody who is currently in an abusive relationship, get out any way that you can. Your partner is not worth your life!
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@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
12 Nov 08
I have never been in a completely violent abusive relationship. But I was with this guy for about a year and he was mentally and emotionally abusive. He put me down everyday and made me feel like I was nothing, at least nothing without him because according to him he was the only one that could ever love me. Towards the end he started getting rough and a few times pushed me, once resulting with a huge bruise on my back. He'd grab my arms really hard or corner me and scream at me. I have no doubt in my mind that if I hadn't left he would have started getting worse and I would have gotten hurt. I ran as fast as I could away from that relationship and have never looked back. He hung out with my currents boyfriends brothers a few times after me and my current boyfriend were together and it was awkward. One druken night we were all talking and he actually had the nerve to say I was the reason things didn't work...funny I thought it was because he was a abusive jerk but that's just me I guess. I agree that if anyone is in a abusive relationship emotional,mental or physical that they should get out immediatly. It's not worth it!!
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• Bahrain
13 Nov 08
And stupid jerks that actually hang out with barbaric people like that as friends or whatever aren't worth it, either!
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@dodo19 (47133)
• Beaconsfield, Quebec
13 Nov 08
I'm lucky as I never have been in an abusive relationship. But I worked in a shelter for women who were victims of abuse. So I've worked with women whose partners were violent towards them.
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