“Let’s get ready to leave for father’s day service! We’re late.” Her teen daughter’s voice is screeching from her room, “You’ve got to be kidding me! I’m not going to honor a man who is so cruel to us. Mom, what are you doing? Don’t you live here? Don’t you see? Why are you doing [...]
Just gonna stand there and watch me burn. This is Rihanna’s line in the Eminem song Love the way you lie. The lyrics and video are hard because the pain and the romance is uncensored, as it should be. If there were a way to have your body shut down when you’re in a relationship [...]
If you have lived long enough, you have heard fight songs come and go. When the news broke of horrific pictures of what Chris Brown did to Rihanna’s face, the internet searches for the domestic violence picture almost halted the internet. Almost everyone had an opinion especially after it looked like she went back to [...]
If someone walked up to your teen and asked them if they would like to be in a relationship where they were constantly hit and or made to feel stupid and worthless. I am sure your teen, any teen would say, “No.” If only it were so easy. When abusers start relationships, they don’t have [...]
With the recent events in Haiti or any similarly traumatic event, it is normal to feel a sense of overwhelming anxiety and little to no control over your environment. This post event distress is commonly referred to as PTSD or post-traumatic distress disorder. Although it makes perfect sense to expect this type of anxiety or [...]
This week Mackenzie Phillips was on Oprah discussing how her father abused her for over a decade and then she later developed a consensual sexual relationship with him. People wonder how this can be. Seventy percent of teens abused know their abuser. The previous lessons to children and then teens about how the abuser is [...]
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