Did You Tell Anyone When He Becomes Violent?

I think often when we hear about stories of violence and intimate partner relationships, it's often from people who are telling the story having made the decision to leave. I'm wondering if you can go back to that period of time when you didn't know that the relationship was going to end. What was it like to be trying to navigate all of those concerns when you weren't really in charge of whether something was going to become violent? It was one of the most difficult times of my life. And the way I dealt with it was I got hyper religious, because I thought that like church was a safe place.