Shedding light on what it really can look like (from first-hand experience) might just give someone the courage they need to get out.
Yes, this is personal. It's a story about domestic abuse and gender based violence, which makes it very personal. It is not my story, not anymore. It was, but it does not define me and my life any longer.
This story might be difficult to read for some. It may not be the hopeful and full of light, sugarcoated romance novel you'd want.
This is a story about truth, my truth, and nothing more.
The story is based on my story. Now, do keep in mind: it's still a story, with fiction and dramatic emphasis, but the red flags, the warnings are clear, unedited and willfully added because if you look too closely or not close enough, you might, like I did, miss them.
Some women leave early, and some get out after years, better late than never, right? Some never leave, and some never get the chance to leave.
This is for them, the ones that didn't get the opportunity to leave, the ones who were robbed of time. Their lives, stolen, their time, cut short - by someone who was supposed to love them.
Please, beautiful woman, please leave and heal. This is me, begging. You deserve more.
╰┈➤ ❝ [I stood there in unequivocal revelation, the lagging pain slowly catching up with me, but before I could release a fraction of the pain into my screaming, a bell rang, and suddenly, pilfered from my body was the ability to move. My face neutral and my muscles disabled as I fell face-first into the hard, scathing rock that lay unmoved before me.]
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Imagine awakening in an environment you deemed unfamiliar, your back thrumming in pain, with your mind staying clear of how you ended up there or simply the moments that lead to your position.
You try to find a way out and later realize that you can't even remember who you are; your memories purged, your identity unknown.
It takes you a good amount of time, pain, and effort, and eventually you manage to gather tiny fragments of who you were along with the trauma of how you retrieved it, but it's okay, maybe it's all worth it as you finally make contact with another person. Turns out she was your best friend.
Finally, it looks like all is turning up until you learn of all the inhumane things you've done in your past, things that evade your newfound morals, things that were so detrimental to society that when you hear the reason as to why you've been enduring such agony, you understand why.
How many people did you even end up hurting? What did you do that was so bad, that it made millions wish the absolute worst of you? What will you do now?