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I’ve sat through all kinds of educational classes concerning domestic violence and how to deal with the issue.  I’ve heard statistics and heart breaking stories like the boyfriend who cut up his girlfriend with samurai sword instead of paying the rent and the husband that savagely attacked his wife and his in-laws after his wife took the children from their home.  Never mind all the anecdotal stories I’ve heard over the years sitting on bar stools, and quite confessions from female friends.  I don’t understand why it happens and I will never understand why people stay, but while the experts will debate the right way to handle this issue there is a much similar solution.  When you hit back people will stop hitting you, and than you will have a chance to get away.

This isn’t an article about facts and figures you can find those just as easy as I did online, and from resources in your community, but I will post some of them again because they are so disturbing.  According to the folks at the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence 1 in 4 women experience domestic violence at one point in their life, and 85% of the victims are women.  When women are in their early to mid twenties they’re at greatest risk for nonfatal abuse, and accord to the F.B.I. 1/3 of female homicides are committed by their partner.  Bottom line is we all know someone being affected by domestic violence even if it isn’t out in the open.  Treat is as the serious problem it is and be there for those who need your help.

If your involved in a domestic violence situation or you know someone who is you have to find a way out, and utilize what resources are available.  I know easier said than done, but every journey starts with the first step, so don’t suffer in silence.  The longer you stay the worse off you’ll be and when children witness this type of abuse the disease will be passed on top them.  First get out and than learn how to fight, and that is where we come in with self defense training to fit any budget.  If you have a place to watch a DVD you have a place to learn, and you don’t need much to train.  It only takes minimal effort each day, but with each lesson you will learn what to do the next time he tries to hurt you, and you know he will try again he’ll be the one in pain.

You don’t see your friends and family, you cover up bruises and make excuses, you rush home and try to make sure everything is perfect or else. You live each day in fear at the one place you should always find warm and welcoming, and only you can change that, and when you learn how to fight back you can walk away and start feeling normal again.  Take all that energy and drive and start training and use that fear as fuel, because it won’t stop until one of you is dead, and you can’t accept that scenario.  Protecting yourself and your children is a basic human right.  Don’t just get him out of your life be ready incase he tries to get back into it.