You just can't even imagine. That’s not a cliché. That’s a fact. Unless you’ve lived it—being stalked, pursued, hunted—you don’t know what it’s li
You just can’t even imagine.
That’s not a cliché. That’s a fact.
Unless you’ve lived it—
being stalked, pursued, hunted—you don’t know what it’s like to be someone’s obsession.
Stalking isn’t romantic.
It’s not about love.
It’s not “just a crush” or someone “not getting over you.”
It’s a terror campaign.
And the goal?
To break you down.
To wear you out.
To control your time, your choices, your movement, your mind.
Imagine This:
Every time you walk out the door, you have to scan the street.
Every ring of your phone could be him.
Every shadow, every strange car, every unmarked package sets off panic.
You change your route. You move homes. You quit jobs.
You don’t post online. You stop visiting friends.
You train your children on emergency plans just in case.
You start to wonder if this is what your life is now: waiting for him to show up, again.
You don’t rest. You don’t exhale.
Even when it’s quiet, you know it’s not over.
Because stalkers don’t need permission.
They don’t need contact.
They just need obsession and access.
And in today’s world, access is easy.
And what makes it worse?
Society downplays it. (Here’s our part. This is the part that we play.)
“Just block him.”
“He’s just hurt.”
“Well, what did you do?”
They don’t understand that stalking is psychological warfare.
It’s about domination, humiliation, and control.
And many Survivors know the chilling truth:
Stalking often escalates to physical violence, even murder.
According to the CDC and the Bureau of Justice Statistics:
1 in 6 women in the U.S. (and 1 in 17 men) have experienced stalking so severe it made them feel fear, threats, or concern for their safety.
76% of women murdered by a current or former intimate partner were stalked beforehand.
94% of women who were raped by someone they knew had also been stalked by that person in the year prior to the assault.
On average, 61% of female stalking victims are stalked by a current or former intimate partner.
So no—this isn’t just “creepy.”
It’s criminal.
It’s dangerous.
And it’s absolutely traumatizing.
To survive stalking is to survive trauma day after day, while the world keeps asking you to “get over it.”
But we see you.
We believe you.
And we will never downplay the courage it takes just to make it to the next day.
You didn’t imagine it.
You didn’t exaggerate.
And you didn’t deserve it.
If you’ve survived stalking, you survived a terror campaign. And we honor your fight.
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