Arizona Foothills
“I’m a prominent member of the community and desperately want out of my marriage. My husband has been abusing me behind closed doors for years. I’m terrified about what will happen for me and our children when I actually follow through and leave. Where do I turn?”
Approximately 1.3 million women and 835,000 men are physically assaulted by an intimate partner annually in the United States. Additionally, in recent years, an intimate partner killed approximately 33% of female murder victims and 4% of male murder victims. Even more frightening, 50% of offenders in state prison for spousal abuse killed their victims. Facts taken from:
Sadly, domestic violence is not an uncommon occurrence. It spans across all walks of life. For many complicated reasons, victims go to extreme lengths to cover up the abuse and protect their abuser and to cover up the oftentimes devastating abuse that has been inflicted upon them and their children under their own roof. I see this all the time in my practice and the impact on everyone involved can be heartbreaking. It sometimes takes months to work through the cycle of abuse with my clients and it takes much encouragement from me, their families and others close to them before they begin to recognize their self-worth.
