Pastor Rick
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Re: Spousal abuse
Back to the spousal abuse topic now
I do not know if any "official" study has been done on this but in my church we have 3 couples that were victims of such abuse in previous marriage relationships. They bonded as a group and have always been there to provide help and support not only for each other but for others in their social circles. Now it has been 6 years and while a couple have admitted that they felt like falling back into that pattern at times the love and support of the others in the group has given them the strength needed to overcome those urges
It seems like having such a support group is a real help in stopping this atrocious behavior.
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11/16/2008, 11:19 pm
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Erika E
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Re: Spousal abuse
Totally. I think a lot of todays counsellors have been through what 'you' have been through and them people make the best counsellors rather than ones who have just trained and gone 'by the book'
The ones that have actually been through it have more time and understanding.
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11/17/2008, 11:50 am
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Spousal abuse
Of course, personal experience of something always makes you more empathetic of someone else's suffering unless your psyche has been totally destroyed by the abuse and your ability to empathise along with it, then you are dangerous.
Sometimes people like that will join organisations that help people who are being abused, Ted Bundy is a case in point. He worked on a suicide and abuse hotline alongside Ann Rule who knew him as a friend and who eventually wrote his story.
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11/20/2008, 3:42 am
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Morwen Oronor
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Re: Spousal abuse
Spousal abuse means either one. There are women who think it's ok to beat up a man just as there are men who think it is ok to beat up a woman. It works both ways.
And in both ways it is wrong, no one should ever hit another person for whatever reason, either physically or mentally.
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6/14/2009, 1:55 am
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