On Saturday August 6th, 2022, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, a man named Francoise Littlejohn (age 30) pulled into a neighborhood and parked in the 11300 block of Treemont Lane, and heinously executed his three children and turned the gun on himself in an act of intimate partner violence-related homicide-suicide. Not only am I grieved by…
#HeNeverHitMe, But… [Intimate Partner Abuse]
Many people ask survivors of intimate partner abuse why they stayed with abusers for so long. Why didn't they immediately leave at the first sign of abuse? The extremely condensed answer is that one of the reasons why survivors of intimate partner abuse stay with abusers instead of immediately leaving them at the first sign…
Women in Abusive Marriages Aren’t Obligated to “Exhaust All Options and Resources”
I was going through my emails this morning and I came across a long response by someone who commented on one of my blog articles about spousal abuse. The comment had a number of problems, but one of the problems that stood out to me the most was the statement that women who are married…