So I should get abused to understand the victims' emotions and situtation?
It is not enough that I witnessed my father beating senseless out of my mother throughout of my childhood? It is not enough that I have to see my father being arrested and handcuffed away in a police car at age five? It is not enough to being lied by my mother about her purple bruise on her eye who said, "I fell on the pavement and got this bruise"? it is not enough for me to understand what the abusive relationship is all about?
Being a child of an abusive relationship from birth , I *do* understand every degree of abuse in the relationships and I do remember every chance my mother could get away but didn't take...
So therefore, I think I am entitled to speak up on this issue.
