OMG really? Cutting grains and soy doesn't automatically make someone an accurate replica of primal humans? And eating more nutritious, less processed, food doesn't absolutely guarantee perfect health?

Honestly, I think the term "paleo" is just a misnomer at this point, as there are very few people that argue the paleo diet is most healthy because it more closely resembles what we ate thousands of years ago. It's just a method of cutting out food that is processed and hard for the body to digest. All of these…

I definitely never pretended I was being accurate to history when on the paleo diet a few years ago. I did, however, lose a lot of weight. My life circumstances changed and it became a little too expensive for me to keep up with as well as I used to, but I miss those paleo diet jeans that are still hanging hopefully…

The same moron that feels it necessary to point out that a cunt lies between a womans thighs... because otherwise people wouldn't know.

LOL OMG I was like "..." when I saw that. Then again what else can we expect from these people?

What kind of moron uses "You have pubic hair" as a putdown?

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She wasn't there though. At the time, she was already living with her mother and the parents were divorced. They met her together, they chatted a bit, he dropped his daughter home with her mother (his ex) and swung back around and kidnapped her.

While I agree negligence abounds in this case, I think that's a huge leap to make, even from "wife abuser and own daughter abductor [the latter is really very common]" to "serial rapist who keeps women locked in house like prisoners for a decade."

She meant he abducted her children— he took them when he wasn't supposed to have them, pursuant to their custody agreement. I've read elsewhere that he claimed he was taking them because their stepfather abused them (the girls testified to that, and the stepfather plead to a minor charge, though he said he was…

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In case you haven't already read it, I highly recommend Staci Haines' book Healing Sex (it used to be called The Survivor's Guide to Sex). Unlike some previous resources on intimacy after abuse/assault, it's completely non-judgmental and focused on triggers, boundaries, consent, and staying present. So, so helpful.

It's amazing the level of cognitive dissonance that was present in my head at that time. I ended up getting psychotically depressed because I knew that what was happening was wrong, but I also blamed myself and constantly made excuses for him.

"He has a temper, I know that, and I provoked him. It was my fault."
"I…

It is horrifying to me that the police did not get a statement from you. I am an advocate that works in a police dpeartment and i cannot think of a single instance where they did not get a sattement from both involved parties. Even when a victim is declining help, it's my job to call them and offer help again, as many…

Thank you, your kindness means a lot. But I don't want sympathy, I want people to realise that often people in an abusive situation can't even articulate that they're being abused. A lot of abuse starts out with psychological warfare which breaks the person down, to the point that when they're beaten or raped, they…

your story is exactly why "domestic violence" is so difficult to handle. As much as we all tut-tut about how hitting another person is violence, period (and it is!), so many times the victim him/herself does not perceive they are being abused and will often turn on the police or the good samaritan trying to help them.

The problem is that we call it "domestic violence" and tuck it away into it's own special little niche that somehow supposedly has different rules. If a man hits another man, it's assault and battery. If a man hits a woman related to him, it's "domestic violence". If a person on the street hears a loud argument…

all too often, domestic violence is treated as something "private," a matter between couples best resolved behind closed doors.