HauntsForHope, that is the truth... :tears:
The physical scars (sometimes) go away, but the emotional scars do stay with you...
I know this as well. It takes a lot of work to break the cycle. I didn't learn that lesson right away, but did eventually. If I had learned sooner, I wouldn't have my beautiful girls, so I try to remember that it wasn't my fault and everything happens for a reason.
Although we are safe now, we are in hiding. We have done the hard work (counseling, for all of us, but mostly me). The price was financial ruin, but the reward was not having to live like that ever again. It was worth it!
I wish more parents (because both men and women can be victims of DV) would make that choice to do the right thing, and leave the abuser. I wish my mom had protected me as a child, because maybe I would have made different choices as a young adult. Times were very different way back then, but it's the truth :sigh:
In the end, children deserve to be protected at all costs. Omaree deserved to live a full life. His father deserved to watch him grow up, and the world has been robbed of a beautiful soul - forever.
The only thing we have left to do, in the wake of this tragedy, is to continue to be Omaree's voice.
Thank you HauntsForHope, for continuing to speak for Omaree. I know this can't be easy for you. :hug:
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