domestic abuse – Through Our Lives

2018 Financial Education Webinar Series ( Co-presented by NCADV )

By Carter Family | September 18, 2024 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2018-03-15 18:07:06. I wish I would have had something like this years ago. So I hope someone will find this and are able to use any of the information. 2018 FINANCIAL EDUCATION WEBINAR SERIES Co-presented by NCADV and the National Endowment for Financial Education http://www.nefe.org/ (NEFE), are exited to share a series of six sequential webinars on financial education for survivors of domestic violence and the advocates who serve them. The series…

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Victims, Abusers, Survivors

By Carter Family | July 24, 2024 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2016-01-28 23:57:02. As a victim of domestic violence there comes a time in that span of abuse that the abused can turn into the abuser. Now with that said, that person isn’t your typical abuser. That person turns into the desperate, feeling of all is lost and will take something extreme to get out of. I don’t recall whether I have spoken of these instances or not but to be honest with the…

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Blame me, shame me

By Carter Family | April 26, 2024 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2014-11-17 20:07:23. We recently had the 72 hour EEG done on Dusty to investigate further just how many seizures he is having, or at least to get a better understanding of some of his random movements. We have wondered for a while now if some of those random movements Dusty makes were muscle spasms or actual seizure activity. We got an answer to some of that this past week. The results of the…

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Letting go

By Carter Family | March 23, 2024 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2020-10-01 14:18:57. They letting go of the past that hurt you is good for your soul, your overall happiness… Well what do you do when you are faced with that past every single minute, hour, day, week, month and year of your life? How do you escape that? How do you grow and learn to cope with something that not only harmed you but the lives of your children?

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Addictions

By Carter Family | May 11, 2023 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2014-07-23 18:00:12. I have only been addicted to one thing in my life (other than my husband), cigarettes. After the last time I was raped in 98′ or 99 (I forget what year it was) someone gave me a cigarette and that was it from there. I had started smoking. Growing up I was always the one against smoking. Always trying to get others around me to stop, especially my mother. I needed…

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Hell No?

By Carter Family | April 12, 2023April 10, 2023 by Carter Family

This was a draft post from several years ago… There are some things I am struggling with and don’t know how to handle it. My children’s biological father, aka “sperm donor”, has other children. He has 3 other daughters by two othe women. The youngest two daughters have been trying to have a relationship with my kids (well all 3 have but lately it has been more the 2 youngest) For Dusty, being around them…

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4 years ago

By Carter Family | March 16, 2023 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2020-01-12 12:00:00. I still can’t get this wrapped around my head but it did get me to finally get something out I had been holding in. Then I wrote this. What would you think if someone said this to you?

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Some of the damage can’t be repaired

By Carter Family | January 29, 2023 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2014-04-11 12:35:08. Ah, it’s Friday. This week has been on full blast. With my husband taking a class at a local college to events with the local chapter of Special Olympics…we normally stay busy. But we take it like it is. Some of the abuse I was victim to has had a lasting effect on our lives. Some of which is a daily reminder of what I went through. Even though I have been through…

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Just another day in my life…

By Carter Family | January 29, 2023 by Carter Family

Originally posted 2014-03-30 13:02:40. My biological father and my mother divorced when I was two years old. My father’s side of the family led what seemed to be a privileged life, as least more than the average family. They had those social-lite parties. My grandmother was a RN and my grandfather retired from the Army to work for Goodyear. I of course wasn’t apart of that lifestyle. My bio’s mother insisted no “cheap store type…

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I just can’t

By Carter Family | January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 by Carter Family

This morning I woke like any other day, nothing different. My husband gets up and starts getting ready for work like any other day… He was driving our truck to work because I had a doctors appointment today. He goes to start the truck and quiet as a mouse. It wasn’t starting. UGHHHH. But that’s not what this post is about… I get coffee, take some of my morning medications… Dogs get let outside to…