Domestic Abuse

And Women Who Tell the Truth Pay the Price. Let’s tell the truth that too many are afraid to name: Male deception gets a pass.Male abuse is rationalized.Male violence and …

We are in justified rage mode, and we are not backing down. You are playing with the sacred memory of children now.  These quiet shadows are not your safe space.  …

There is a deep and dangerous misunderstanding about the case involving Sean Combs and what it means to traffic someone through coercion. So let’s make this plain. Coercive sex trafficking …

To every Survivor who has ever hesitated, second-guessed, or swallowed the truth to protect someone else’s comfort:You are not late.You are not wrong.And you are not the problem. There is …

Perpetrator fragility is a concept used to describe how individuals—most often abusers or those in power—respond with defensiveness, victim-playing, or aggression when they are confronted about their harmful behavior. Instead …

[WeSurviveAbuse.com] Some men don’t fear the harm they cause.They fear the moment a woman finally says,“You will not harm me anymore.” This is perpetrator fragility—when a man responds to being …

Some men (and women) don’t define harm as what they’ve done.They define harm as a woman’s refusal to keep quiet about it. In this upside-down worldview, her voice becomes the …

[wesurviveabuse.com] There are men—too many—who believe that a woman harms them simply by refusing to be harmed by them. She sets a boundary.She tells the truth.She leaves.She survives. And suddenly …

Celebrity trials that encompass domestic violence and rape annoy me. A whole lot of people get to talking about victims like they know them. People who never met the victim …

You look at her and ask, “Why did she stay?” But you don’t know the whole story. You saw a snapshot.She’s been living the full movie. To you, it might …