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…