http://verbalabusejournals.com/verbal-abuse-marriage/2010/04/03/stay-abusive-marriage/ ...and what I'm doing in it Sat, 12 May 2012 04:16:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://verbalabusejournals.com/verbal-abuse-marriage/2010/04/03/stay-abusive-marriage/comment-page-1/#comment-1373 Tabitha the KnittingJourneyman Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:46:26 +0000 http://verbalabusejournals.com/verbal-abuse-marriage/?p=1397#comment-1373 I hear you--and I understand ALL too well, having been there myself...and having divorced one verbally abusive man to go straight into the arms of another because it felt comfortable and familiar...did I know better? Yes. Did i do it anyway? Yes. What did it take for me to learn? Waking up and really thinking--is this what I want my children to be/have/know as good/right when they are older? And it still took years to break out of my own patterns to find a healthy me...much less a healthy relationship... I hear you–and I understand ALL too well, having been there myself…and having divorced one verbally abusive man to go straight into the arms of another because it felt comfortable and familiar…did I know better? Yes. Did i do it anyway? Yes. What did it take for me to learn? Waking up and really thinking–is this what I want my children to be/have/know as good/right when they are older? And it still took years to break out of my own patterns to find a healthy me…much less a healthy relationship…

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