Tag: domestic violence
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A Court Order to be at My Own House
I learned, during those years, that a court order is only as real as someone’s willingness to enforce it. On its own, it’s just paper, ink and a signature and a promise that turns out to be conditional. There were a lot of them. Orders were made, and then he simply wouldn’t follow them, and…
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A Record
I want to write this one down simply, because I want it to exist outside of me. Not to explain it, or make sense of it, or find the meaning in it. Just to have it said, once, where it can’t be kept in the dark anymore. A record. For two years I was in…
