Women in Abusive relationships…

Last night was a late night for me as I talked to one of my best friends on the phone for about 2 hours then followed it up with watching MSNB’s Lock up! It is a show about people in prison and early this morning they featured a woman’s prison just south of Raleigh North Carolina. A lot of interesting stories of how these women got there and also the recent statistics of the number of women in prison doubling! 

I am amazed at how many are there because of domestic abuse and defending themselves. You would think that in this time and age we are in, there would be more help for those women to leave that situation before it got to that point! 

I know more about abuse and walking away and how hard it is than I care to know. When I did there was not the support system out there for me. If you know of any women who are in that situation and need to see there is life out there without their abuser please point them in my direction! I will talk to them and let them know it can be done! Life is too short to live in worry of when the next punch is going to come or believe that ‘that’s just the way it has to be’!

So the next time you look the other way because you don’t want to get involved know it only takes one voice to help someone begin a life without violence! No child should have to see the abuse or woman has to stay in that situation!