How The Victim Starts To Feel

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How You Feel In A Domestic Relationship

Leaving a Domestic Violence relationship is way harder than leaving a regular relationship. Well, how is it harder? It is harder because you feel like you are in the wrong, and that you need to stay and make things right. Here are a few examples you may start to feel.

1.Advocate: The victim normally doesn't have a enthusiastic support on their side this is when they start to lose hope.

2.Depressed: The victim starts to get really sad and wants to start self-harm.(Some become severly depressed that they kill themselves.)

3.Denial: The victim is in denial about the danger, instead believing that if they could be better partners, the abuse would stop.(This is not true.)

4.Excuses: The victim believes the abuser's excuses to justify the violence, blaming, job, stress, or substance abuse.

The victim will also start to feel like their doing something wrong because they are being beatin by their partner. If the women or man starts to abuse it is because they start to feel weak. Normally the abuser wants to have control or power over everything. This is the main reason people abuse.They want to feel in control. There’s an undeniable truth that victims of abuse or Domestic Violence share. Although you will come out victorious, you will not come out the same. Abuse changes you. These changes in yourself and the way you interact with the outside world might not be so apparent until you go about your day and start feeling amiss. You are still yourself and yet you are not the same. That is OK! Many people who have experienced Domestic Violence report having flashbacks of the abuse they’ve endured. These flashbacks are triggered by no apparent reason, and can feel very vivid and realistic, making the survivor relive the pain experienced from the abusive situation, which can leave you feeling confused, isolated and like there’s something wrong with your head. When you start dating someone you will not trust them because your scared it will happen all over again.

Frequently, domestic violence survivors suffer from an array of psychosomatic illnesses, eating disorders, insomnia, gastrointestinal disturbances, generalized chronic pain, and devastating mental health problems like posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). If your abuser is hitting you then do they really love you? If they are causing you PTSD and causing you to stop contacting your family that's just another sign they are an abuser.