I am a child of domestic violence, and I am breaking my silence
This article contains depictions of physical abuse.
I am about to break a pact of silence, a pact that has long bound my family.
I am a child of domestic violence.
I write as an adult, and yet I speak in the present tense: I am – not I was – a child who grew up with domestic violence. One is a child of domestic violence for life, locked into that role in part by the unspeakable effects of a trauma that is there from the beginning, so that there is no before or after trauma, so that trauma is the kernel around which one develops from early infancy.… Seguir leyendo »