Very powerful PSA about Domestic Violence

[kdmorris]

4. I remember those days

19 years later... the oh-so-important reasons to keep it hidden have faded from my memory. But I remember the shame...the feeling that I deserved it, somehow...the trying to find a reason for the black eyes, bruises on my arms so that no one would know...For a long time after his arrest (3 years in jail) and the eventual divorce - I wanted an apology from him. But he never gave me one and to this day says that he "barely slapped me maybe one time". He does not see my 3 daughters (has not seen them since 1996) - my daughters call my husband "Dad" and love him as their father. Two of them don't remember him at all.

I try to get through to women in this situation now. He won't change. He's not sorry. And it will happen again.