She felt dirty, looking into signs of abuse. After all, didn't she choose to stay? And it was just emotional abuse at worst, although she often wished her partner would hit her. It would give her some sort of odd validation, so people would stop denying the problem- so she would stop denying the problem.
As she suspected, the signs were all there. She even found things she hadn't known were considered abusive, things that she had suffered silently There remained one questioned for the frightened woman.......
Now what do I do?
The musings of a crazy lady from Hamilton, Ohio. "Madwoman in the attic" is a reference to the book "Jane Eyre," and our world where we try to silence and "lock away" the mentally ill.
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