List: Relationships - The Good and The Abusive | Curated by Lynda Claire

Dec 7, 2024
52 stories
Relationships - The Good and The Abusive
Lynda Claire
We He Dismisses Your FeelingsI still remember that moment, when I stood before you with tears steaming down my face. Looking for some glimpse of love or comfort from…
Dec 7, 2024
Dec 7, 2024
Lynda Claire
Rape Within A RelationshipI had sex with him so many times, consensually, sometimes out of feeling I should and a few times where I did not want to. I was in a…
Nov 25, 2022
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Nov 25, 2022
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Lynda Claire
Living With His Porn AddictionThis is a hard one for me to write, probably because it is where I was cut the deepest. This is the area of my life where deep trauma still…
Nov 12, 2022
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Nov 12, 2022
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Lynda Claire
When Your Happiness Makes Others UncomfortableI spent a long time in my life not only being unhappy but being pretty much nothing at all. I was numb and shut down after more than a…
Nov 11, 2022
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Nov 11, 2022
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Lynda Claire
Your Lies Don’t Protect MeI remember the first time I lied as a child, it was an imaginative story made to make my five year old life sound more interesting than it…
Oct 15, 2022
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Oct 15, 2022
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Lynda Claire
A Healthy Love After AbuseWhen I first left my last relationship I thought I would never date again let alone now be engaged to someone I can say without a single…
Oct 2, 2022
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Oct 2, 2022
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Lynda Claire
You Don’t Own MeWhy are we always so quick to rush to make something ours? We want something, and in this world today, we can have it almost immediately…
Apr 30, 2022
Apr 30, 2022
Lynda Claire
Falling in Love After AbuseIt is terrifying. To trust, to hope and to love. It is hard to process the differences in a love when all you have known before was abuse…
Apr 26, 2022
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Apr 26, 2022
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Lynda Claire
My ProposalsI was someone who always wanted to get married. I wanted that happily ever after that was sold to me in all the media I’d been exposed to…
Apr 20, 2022
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Apr 20, 2022
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Lynda Claire
Stop Telling Women They’re Too Busy to DateThis has been an interesting thing for me since taking a peek at the dating world and deciding if it’s a place I want to be in right now or…
Apr 8, 2022
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Apr 8, 2022
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Lynda Claire
I’ll Still Love You if You Cheat on MeHe said these words to me repeatedly, at least once a week and sometimes more than that. Reassuring me over and over again that his love…
Mar 21, 2022
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Mar 21, 2022
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Lynda Claire
It’s Not Sexy to Feel Like Your MotherI remember many moments so vividly where I looked at the man before me and felt this repulsion. Watching him throw a tantrum in front of me…
Mar 10, 2022
Mar 10, 2022
Lynda Claire
I Know You’re Watching MeIt’s pretty sad really that you can’t just leave me alone. That you have to send people or little signs that you’re watching me, subtle…
Feb 12, 2022
Feb 12, 2022
Lynda Claire
Pain is Inevitable, Suffering is OptionalI heard these words about a month ago and they have buried themselves somewhere deep inside of me. The last two and a half years of my life…
Feb 11, 2022
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Feb 11, 2022
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Lynda Claire
Why I Was the Perfect Victim for AbuseIt’s easy when you first leave an abusive relationship to look at the abuser and know that the way they treated you was wrong. It’s easy to…
Jan 28, 2022
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Jan 28, 2022
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Lynda Claire
When You Know You’re Outgrowing Your PartnerWhen we fall in love with someone we can’t imagine not being perfectly in sync with them the majority of the time. We talk about future…
Jan 28, 2022
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Jan 28, 2022
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Lynda Claire
The Time You are Most Vulnerable in Your Entire Abusive Relationship is When You LeavePeople who have not experienced abuse don’t get it. They don’t understand why you stay. They will say things like “just leave, you deserve…
Jan 26, 2022
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Jan 26, 2022
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Lynda Claire
Last Night Someone Tried to Kick in My Front DoorI knew the freedom I thought I had was an illusion. I knew he wouldn’t leave me alone ever. I had hoped him being gone would mean it would…
Jan 25, 2022
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Jan 25, 2022
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Lynda Claire
He Didn’t Want My Children Doing ChoresI was talking with a friend about how my children are being amazing and doing chores each night to help me out. Sure in the beginning it…
Jan 23, 2022
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Jan 23, 2022
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Lynda Claire
She Said I Could Learn to Love Him AgainI wasn’t at all surprised that within two days of telling my now ex husband our relationship was over that his mother would have to have…
Jan 23, 2022
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Jan 23, 2022
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