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to The Invisible Abuse ProjectSticks and Stones…….
‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me' According to the website phrases.org.uk the origins of this saying go back to 1862 if not earlier. It implies that someone may be able to physically hurt you; they won’t be able to hurt you with...
Using pets as form of control
Before I start to talk about how my husband used our cats as a form of control, I will be honest with you; I found this article incredibly hard to write. Many tears have been shed in the process. How he treated the boys and the cats I find harder to deal with than...
The CV of an Emotionally Abused Woman
How do you compose a CV after many years of being out of the workforce in any conventional sense? I joke about my CV having more holes in it than a sieve, but in reality it isn’t funny it is the truth. There aren’t just gaps; there is a lack of conventional...
Christmas Past
For many years I have had a love/hate relationship with Christmas. As a child I looked forward to it, what would Father Christmas bring me in my stocking? Being an only child I loved spending time with my cousins. Christmas during my teenage years had both the...
The Healing Power of Tomatoes
Conventional is a word that I don’t associate with me. I have, throughout my life, had more success when I have taken a slightly unconventional route. That includes the path I took during the first year of being a widow and starting on the slow and painful journey...
