My name is Violet and I have been in the shelter since I was a small pup. I'm a shy girl who will need a calm and patient home. I can live with dogs, and would benefit from a confident dog in particular.
Please apply for me:
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This is such a sad but accurate description of coercive control (by a mother participant in a research study):
“What I remember most …is that it’s like being put in a box. How you end up in there is the biggest trick – I never managed to work that one out. Maybe you think it’s a treasure box at first: you’re in there because you’re special. Soon the box starts to shrink. Every time you touch the edges there is an “argument”. So you try to make yourself fit. You curl up, become smaller, quieter, remove the excessive, offensive parts of your personality … You eliminate people and interests, change your behaviour. But still the box gets smaller.” (Survivor of domestic abuse)
I’m awaiting his history. Behaviour like this doesn’t come ‘out of the blue.’ It’s a pattern of escalating risk. We urgently need serial domestic abusers & stalkers to be proactively identified & assessed & managed @YvetteCooperMP@jessphillips@ZDronfieldchange.org/p/include-seri…
Urgh. Horrific. Of course it’s the rejected ex boyfriend who thinks his feelings matter more than three women’s lives:
Triple murder suspect Kyle Clifford dropped out of the army after failing to impress superiors and just scraping pass before 'attacking BBC star's wife and
Can’t pretend this is pretty but I’ve been looking forward to this for ages: tuna, prawns, cannellini beans, toms, olives, capers and roasted asparagus, courgette and artichoke hearts. And a green goddess dressing.
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