Blog #10

This chapter was a little bit harder to think of something to write my blog over. Usually I try to discuss something that has been relatable to something in classes, media, or in my life. Recently nothing has come up related to domestic violence, rape, or in general women abuse. Although, I do want to discuss something that happened years ago that I did not understand then, but today I think I grasp the situation a little better. When I was younger my mom’s sister came to stay with us a little while because my aunt’s husband had emotionally and physically attacked her. My aunt was fine and decided not to report the situation to the police. After a few days she returned home. I never understood how other family members would just let her move back in and why they were okay with her not reporting it. The thing that I did not understand then, that I understand now, is that my aunt had convinced everyone that it was a onetime incident, that it would never happen again, and that she loved her husband, she also did not want her children to have to go through a divorce. Recently my best friend was in an emotionally abusive relationship that was not dangerous but I still could tell that it was affecting my best friend’s life. We often talked about the situations and I told her that I did not like what he was doing, but she always told me she loved him, so I never felt like the situation was in my hands to take care of. Luckily my best friend is a strong woman and is now not with him, but for my aunt things got a little worse, until the day she walked out on him. The crazy part about my aunts situation, that although she was the one tormented, because she walked out on him and never reported any of the incidents, he got to keep the house and have custody over their kids.

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