“Our stories have power and our voices have power, especially when we stand united against injustice.”
“I was married very young,” she said. “My relationship was abusive before we got married and I really thought if I loved him enough and tried hard enough and if I was like, this perfect wife and mother that it would get better and getting married really only made things worse.”
But even after she left, she said the abuse continued because she had to co-parent with her ex-husband. “I didn't start publicly sharing my story until my ex-husband was in prison because if I talked too much, my kids would suffer,” she said.“When I share on social media, it's a face, it's a face that they can see and they can hear, and it's not just a stranger on the other end of a telephone and they can look back on my social media and look at my story and see what we've lived through and where we are now and feel some kind of connection like they're not alone.
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