Unmarked Scars: Identifying the Signs of Abuse || REVISING ||

She could feel her scars even though they weren't visible. She felt the ache and the confusion throughout her body but she could not see the damage. She was used to it but today, for some reason, she began to challenge it - to challenge the normalcy they had created to keep her in her cage.
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We don't expect our family, friends, or lovers to hurt us but sometimes they do so maliciously and continuously. It can be through mind games, violations of the body, or other tactics. They create a twisted reality that the things they do to us are normal. It is not normal; it is abhorrent. How can we see the truth when our loved ones use our trust in them to hurt us?