Signs Your Teen Is In An Abusive Relationship And How To Address It
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Julia Austin
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Leave your door open
So what do you say? Your instinct will be to usher your baby away to a far-away land to get away from the abuser. But she’ll ultimately need to want to leave on her own if the decision is going to stick. “I tried to avoid saying ‘I know better because I’m the mom.’ Because that can drive them right into the hands of the abuser. I left the conversation such that she felt, when she left him, she could come to me.” Hatwood knew how important that was because, unfortunately, it wasn’t something she got from people in her circle when she left her abusive relationship. Many of them had withdrawn their support after losing patience because she stayed with her abuser for so long.
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