A Personal Reflection of Domestic Violence

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A Personal Reflection of Domestic Violence Christina M. Moore English Composition 1 Lori Hawks April 13, 2013 It was July 5, 2009 I had no idea that this day was going to be a night that I would never be able to forget. I met my now ex-husband in 2002 there was an instant attraction he was very sweet and charming. We married a few months after meeting. I knew that he had a temper but it was never towards me, it was always directed at those who he felt were a threat to himself or his family. One night he and I had a huge disagreement and he shoved me down on the couch and slapped me across the face. I was shocked and hurt, I wasn’t sure how to respond or even act at that moment. After he did this he looked at me and apologized and told me that this would never happen again. Little did I know that this was only the start of the abuse that I would endure, for months after this incident when he would get upset he would hit me, kick me, punch me and call me filthy name’s. I never knew what his reasoning was behind it all. My then husband started cheating on me and never wanted anything to do with me at all. He was very controlling over me though, he wanted me to push everyone completely out of my life so that he could treat me any way that he wanted. Nothing I did was ever good enough for him. The house was never clean enough, the laundry was never folded right, I did not make enough money for him nothing was perfect enough for him. July 4, 2009 I had decided that I had enough and my children have seen enough, so I packed up what we could while my husband was passed out drunk on the couch. We very quietly opened the front door and got
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