Colón, who declined to comment for this story, says she is now seeking to own the truth of what happened to her in order to exorcise her demons and potentially help other trauma survivors.
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If internalizers were shamed for their sensitive emotions during childhood, as adults they may be embarrassed to show any deep emotion. They may say “I’m sorry” when they start crying in a therapist’s office, as though they should be able to talk about their emotional pain without showing it. Some e…
Men hurt women. It is a fact. It is an epidemic. It is a public health catastrophe. It is normal.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis have positioned themselves as champions for women, children, fighting against sexual abuses and sex trafficking... As much as I applaud them for standing up for women, I am left confused and heartbroken as to why they refuse to stand up for all the women they know who h…
We do, however, need to create a social ethic that makes it clear that anyone who chooses to go to bat for a man accused of abuse has a responsibility to get all the facts and not just the view that he promotes. The abuse of women is simply too rampant for anyone to assume that an allegation is fals…
Try not to abuse your power. I know we didn't choose to change.
Their minds work logically; they understand cause and effect; they don't hallucinate. Their perceptions of most life circumstances are reasonably accurate. They get good reports at work; they do well in school or training programs; and no one other than their partners -- and children -- thinks that…
The external problem, or the elephant in the room, is that there is a serious epidemic of violence against women committed by men. It’s unfashionable to discuss either because it is so obvious or so contested, or both at the same time.
There are not hundreds of women accusing Allen, not 60, nor 10, just one. One little girl who you can see worshipping her father in home movies, who you can see suffering to this day because people still worship her father.
Victims and survivors shouldn't have to feel alone.
He made me feel like I wasn’t allowed joy, basically. That’s what it boils down to: I wasn’t allowed joy unless it directly revolved around him.
I consider it a bad representation of BDSM because I don’t consider it BDSM. This man has a fetish, this man has a kink, but I don’t think it was true BDSM because there was a clear consent violation that occurred. It’s just, like, spicy assault.
Was your first love unforgettable?
The thing is, how a cop treats their partner is the very definition of police business. What goes on at home is intimately related to how an officer acts on the job, and the factors that lead to domestic abuse — coercion, intimidation, authoritarianism, a sense of entitlement to violence — are often…
The audio clips are indeed disturbing, as is the reality of a marriage where it becomes necessary for the couple to consensually record their arguments.
How to read her coldness: She is preoccupied. She is unhappy. She is unhappy with you. You did something and now she’s unhappy, and you need to find out what it is so she will stop being unhappy. You talk to her. You are clear. You think you are clear. You say what you are thinking and you say it af…
You would let her swallow you whole, if she could.
We're not footballs and we don't deserve a kicking.
Multiple ex-members compared aspects of the group dynamic to a 'cult.'
After administering several courses of electric shock, the researchers opened the doors of the cages and then shocked the dogs again. A group of control dogs who had never been shocked before immediately ran away, but the dogs who had earlier been subjected to inescapable shock made no attempt to fl…