Violence UnSilenced

Courtney

maggie, dammit — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:13:26 +0000

Editor’s note: February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. If you or someone you know is a victim of dating violence, please get help. When I was a freshman in high school I dated a guy who was several years older than me. I was pretty innocent at the time, but he was very physically...

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Julia

maggie, dammit — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:36:54 +0000

I am suffering from bad flashbacks of abuse as of late. The most prevalent flashback? Having my head bashed against the floor repeatedly until I was unconscious. I was left lying in the hallway. My mother was downstairs in the kitchen and did NOTHING to stop it. She said–how can I ever...

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Denni

maggie, dammit — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:51 +0000

How can anyone live through the the pain and write about it ? For me it isn’t easy even after all of these years. It has been 31 years since my entrance into the world of the living. Because for me, the years of pain and panic were dead years. And even now as I [...]

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Elizabeth

maggie, dammit — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:00:23 +0000

I always wanted to be invisible after that first time it happened. I wanted to watch you, but I didn’t want you to see what I was up to. I remember sitting in my parents’ living room with my eyes shut down, while my breathing became rather shallow. I didn’t want you to hear me [...]

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maggie, dammit — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 19:45:51 +0000

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Caitlyn

maggie, dammit — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:41:56 +0000

I was 15 when I first met him (I am 18 now). He was my boyfriend’s 45-year-old father. He seemed kind and nice and different. When my boyfriend and I broke up I was devastated. I tried to get back with my boyfriend, texted him as much as I could. I found out during the [...]

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Jourdan

maggie, dammit — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:19:14 +0000

December 1 2007, I am in eighth grade. It was a hard year, I was mad at the world, cutting myself, had an eating disorder and was doing any drug I could get my hand on. My speech and debate team was doing a tournament at the local high school and my ex-boyfriend who was [...]

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Jeni AKA Lucky Star

maggie, dammit — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:00:59 +0000

Let me start of by saying that there are many who think that I am brave for posting this blog. I am not brave. I am just no longer afraid. I am not that victim that I was in the past. i am not the confused, lost and shamed person that I was back then. [...]

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Beth

maggie, dammit — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:35:56 +0000

Where do I start? First time I remember it happening I was around five. My Mom and Grandma and older sister went Christmas shopping and left me with him. I was laying in my mom’s bed watching tv when I heard him coming. I know that it had to have happened before because I remember [...]

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Charlotte

maggie, dammit — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:01:16 +0000

Maybe it was being the youngest? Maybe it was growing up with a workaholic father and a narcissistic mother? Maybe it was having siblings who didn’t want to spend time with me? Are these the aspects of my childhood that painted a target on my head? I will never know who or what planted the [...]

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