You can contact us anytime. During a period when you are not sure if you are experiencing abuse, or when you just need to talk to someone, but you are not sure what to do with your situation yet. We are here for you, whether you remain in an abusive relationship, if you are planning to leave, during departure, or during the period after leaving your partner as well.
A conversation with our counselor can be very helpful for sorting your thoughts, gaining a new perspective on your situation, and analyzing the options available to you. It can be particularly essential for keeping you and your children safe at any stage of the relationship and making decisions about how you solve your situation.
You can contact us anytime. During a period when you are not sure if you are experiencing abuse, or when you just need to talk to someone, but you are not sure what to do with your situation yet. We are here for you, whether you remain in an abusive relationship, if you are planning to leave, during departure, or during the period after leaving your partner as well.
A conversation with our counselor can be very helpful for sorting your thoughts, gaining a new perspective on your situation, and analyzing the options available to you. It can be particularly essential for keeping you and your children safe at any stage of the relationship and making decisions about how you solve your situation.
LET’S TALK TOGETHER
A conversation about what you’re experiencing
Even if you get in contact with us, it doesn’t mean that you have to be ready to immediately solve the situation. It may be possible that because of your living conditions and circumstances, a high level of control, making threats and intimidation by the partner, or lack of resources for a separate life for you and your children, you are not able to take immediate steps to end a violent and abusive relationship. It’s possible that you still believe your partner will change his abusive behavior. You can talk to our counselors about all these topics.
A conversation with our counselor can help you identify if what you are experiencing is abuse, it can also provide you with a lot of information about abuse and its forms and mainly about options for solving your situation when you are prepared for it. A conversation can also help you with planning safety and precautions you can use so that you and your children can be safe, or minimize the abuse that you are experiencing. When you are prepared to end an abusive relationship, a conversation with our counselor can be very helpful in planning a safe departure or in planning a separation, the removal of a partner from a shared household as well, or the decision not to share a household with him anymore.
Even if you get in contact with us, it doesn’t mean that you have to be ready to immediately solve the situation. It may be possible that because of your living conditions and circumstances, a high level of control, making threats and intimidation by the partner, or lack of resources for a separate life for you and your children, you are not able to take immediate steps to end a violent and abusive relationship. It’s possible that you still believe your partner will change his abusive behavior. You can talk to our counselors about all these topics.
A conversation with our counselor can help you identify if what you are experiencing is abuse, it can also provide you with a lot of information about abuse and its forms and mainly about options for solving your situation when you are prepared for it. A conversation can also help you with planning safety and precautions you can use so that you and your children can be safe, or minimize the abuse that you are experiencing. When you are prepared to end an abusive relationship, a conversation with our counselor can be very helpful in planning a safe departure or in planning a separation, the removal of a partner from a shared household as well, or the decision not to share a household with him anymore.
LIFE WITHOUT ABUSE
Ending an abusive relationship
Although some women leave when the first signs of abuse start to show, many women stay in these relationships for a long time. Most women that leave, will do so after a few years of serious and escalating abuse. If they return to these relationships (even if it's only temporary), it mostly happens because of social pressure, economic dependence, inability to support their children, stigma, and lack of social support.
Ending an abusive relationship is often a complicated and slowly developing decision-making process, that includes many phases and multiple decisions and actions over time. This gradual process can have the dynamic of “two steps forward and one step back”, so it won’t be a one-time, isolated event. Being uncertain and thinking about whether you are better off staying or leaving is a natural part of this gradual decision-making process. Based on research and practice, we know that until a woman definitively ends her abusive relationship, she may return to her abusive partner once or several times. Considering how difficult and burdensome the process of making decisions and taking individual steps is, conversations with our counselors can be very helpful in solving different problems, dilemmas, fear, and concern.
Although some women leave when the first signs of abuse start to show, many women stay in these relationships for a long time. Most women that leave, will do so after a few years of serious and escalating abuse. If they return to these relationships (even if it's only temporary), it mostly happens because of social pressure, economic dependence, inability to support their children, stigma, and lack of social support.
Ending an abusive relationship is often a complicated and slowly developing decision-making process, that includes many phases and multiple decisions and actions over time. This gradual process can have the dynamic of “two steps forward and one step back”, so it won’t be a one-time, isolated event. Being uncertain and thinking about whether you are better off staying or leaving is a natural part of this gradual decision-making process. Based on research and practice, we know that until a woman definitively ends her abusive relationship, she may return to her abusive partner once or several times. Considering how difficult and burdensome the process of making decisions and taking individual steps is, conversations with our counselors can be very helpful in solving different problems, dilemmas, fear, and concern.
