January Is Stalking Awareness Month

Stalking is a very dangerous crime. Every January since 2004, communities across the U.S. and Canada have come together to raise awareness for stalking.

Some will just disregard this post, as they have never been a victim of stalking, but please be educated so it can be stopped.  Education is the key.

Please stop by http://stalkingawarenessmonth.org  to read the facts, and take their awareness quiz.

This is a fabulous site to educate and create awareness.

Be safe, and be aware.

Happy New Year 2012

Just wanted to wish everyone a very Happy New Year !!!!

Maria

Your Controlling Me?

No one likes a controlling person.  But in an abusive relationship, this is a big redflag, and a dangerous sign.  Abusers will try and control you, they will try and control everyone.  I feel that people who try to control, usually lack self confildence.  However, when someone with an abusive personality looses their control....bad things happen.....yelling, violence, and lots of rage.

During my abusive marriage, I experienced.....his fist through the wall, throwing items across the room, usually large items.  Threats...all the time, how many times did he threaten to jump out of a moving car???  I have seen my steering wheel of the car, being so bent out shape....it was impossible to drive the car.  Threats of cutting me up into tiny pieces, and mailing me home to my family.

In my particular case, controlling stated out subtle, and then snowballed.  It got to the extent I couldnt go to church, I wasn't allowed to go get groceries (unless I left my daughter at home), he knew I wouldnt leave withour her.

Rage is scary, like someone all of a sudden flipped a switch...and for no apparent reason that I could see.  He would wake up in the middle of the night, and then wake up myself and my daughter.  We would sit on the couch.....????  He would unplug all the phones.....oh his mind was on over-drive, not sure what was going through his head.  We would sit for hours, and he would be in the kichen, doing...not sure what he was doing.

I feared for my life so many times...threats, violence, rage...very sad, but I got out. Had to sneak out of course.  It was hard to plan, but I had to keep my daughter and I safe till the time was right.  Its a very dangerous time leaving, and also after you leave.

Do these abusers change???  Maybe...for a little bit...but I think they will go back to old ways. I think stats say 3% of abusers will change.

So glad to be out of such an unhealtly relationship....things take time.

Be safe, have a safety plan, and get help.  There are many shelters, legal advoctes, and  other resoources out there that are there for you.