Over the years domestic violence has become a serious matter in families, relationships, legal marriages, common-law marriages, dating relationships, or friends with benefits, to the point laws has been changed to make society more aware of the severity of how domestic violence can affect a person or person’s life in the long term.
DV can appear in the beginning of a relationship as being “cute” and making the opposite sex feel as though they are special, the only one in life that the person wants to be with. To elaborate more, the opposite sex may start off by pretending to be jealous if he or she catches his or her mate talking to someone else on the phone, or maybe the person is texting someone else, or the person says he or she is going to hang out with the girls or guys and end up running into an old friend of the opposite sex.
DV isn’t always physical abuse, it can also be mental, emotional, as well as spiritual abuse. There are many ways in which an abuser can make a person with low self esteem feel as there they are hollow inside, and that person is the only person in life for them. This is the mindset in which the abuser would want their victim to feel as though they have no one else in the world to turn too.
It is when a person feels as though they have been down as far as they can go, that they began to seek help, to end the domestic violence they have endured for weeks, months, years.
A person who has endured abuse for so many years are often unable to maintain other stable relationships without seeking counseling, from a licensed therapist, and possibly being referred to a psychiatrist for depression medications. There are many physical illness that also comes along with the after effects of domestic violence: one being as previously stated, depression, loss of weight, loss of self and or identity, goals, dreams of ever becoming whole again.
DV is real and not to be taken lightly on any level, the long term effects could sometimes eventually lead to death or life long physical injuries, that one could never recover from.
It is important to share with family, friends, love ones, co-workers, church members, anyone who a person feels will reach out and be a safe place for them.