DIARIES FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Please understand how long I’ve been carrying the weight of everyone else’s issues around for.

Please understand how hard that has now made it for me to do simple tasks in life like get up every day and brush my teeth and shower and eat.  I mask so much pain I’m feeling, day in and day out and I am exhausted.

Please understand that I am trying to stay strong while time passes and how that strength has been chipped away over the years and that sometimes it cripples me.

Please understand that I try my best every day to overcome the loneliness and anxiety and sleepless nights.  

Please understand I’m doing the best I can to survive this.

Please understand all I really want, is for you all to stop attacking,

And humiliating me.