Please forgive me if my first foray for a long time into the DooYoo lounge isn't very good, but this is something I feel strongly about. If I can stop one person (whether male or female, DV affects both sexes, we must not forget) from experiencing what I did, I'll consider it a job well done. My life changed forever, in 3 days time, it will have been 4 months since I ran away from an abusive relationship. The day after I moved back into my mum's house, I knew I had done the right thing. Since then, I've been recovering and I've never felt better. I began a relationship with X while I was at university. From the outside, it's easy to ask why someone ...  Read the complete review

I was recently looking in the discussion category and noticed there was an domestic abuse one to review, I have been pondering if I should write a review on the subject for a while and I plucked up the courage today to give my own review and what it has mean't for me in my life etc and my experience with domestic violence. I was brought up in a terrible abusive household, my dad was an alcoholic but my mum was a none drinker, my dad died 9 years ago and I felt so upset for many years after his death as to why he drank or why he was abusive as I never had the courage to ask him because most of the time he was drunk and not at all in a frame of mind to chat ...  Read the complete review

Wake up and smell the coffee, thats what im telling myself! for the last 4yrs i've put up with emotional and sometimes physical abuse, which i can now see is getting worse and worse. so why dont i leave? (a) because im fat (b) because no one else will want me (c) i have to have things all my way . well, thats what he tells me and the list goes on and on. like everyone else, everything started off a bed of roses, and i cant remember when or why it went wrong. All i know is that if i say the worng thing, do the wrong thing, want to watch something else on TV, it runs the risk of setting him off.. again! again ...  Read the complete review

I have recently been to court for an emergency injunction and occupational order and just before the hearing I sat and read my statement properly for the first time as I had described what had happened during my abusive relationship and how I had felt over the telephone to a domestic viloence helpline lady and told her why I needed her help and now it was all down on paper before my own eyes. Tears of sadness and shock poured down my cheeks as I simply could not belive the story I was reading was my life - my old life and thankfully now my past. (long one im sorry....) I met my abuser when I was 17, he was 27 and I thought he was great. To cut a long story ...  Read the complete review

On May the 14th 2009, I changed my life for the better. I had spent four years and three months in an abusive relationship, and made the choice to leave. I'd met my partner back in 2004, but finally started a relationship with him on Valentines Day 2005. Things moved very quickly. Within a matter of months, he had persuaded me to move in. I was 20 at the time. MY ex had two children from a previous relationship. I quickly became responsible for them, starting with babysitting when they were round ours and he was working. He soon convinced me that it wasn't fair on me for me to be looking after his own kids, so dropped out of work so he could ...  Read the complete review