Author Archives: mercy4women

This blog is a rant.

It’s not just another he said/she said, like in the book “Games People Play,” I think it was written in the ’70’s.  This is not just another child custody case.  My children are being subjected to the care and supervision … Continue reading →

PTSD, the meaning of trauma, healing Continue reading →

Insight into Hindsight is not always helpful advice.  Because I do not choose to ever repeat history.  Did I say I was married for 22 years; we had been together for 24 years, one of those high school sweetheart type … Continue reading →

The retelling of my story feels sometimes fragmented; I try to retell what seems to be foremost on my mind, so it’s not sequential.  When I first moved in with him, it was not too long after that, maybe 2mos. … Continue reading →

I was 5 months pregnant with our son.  It was early morning one winter day when I left the house to go to work; it was a long commute.  I got to an area usually sanded on the freeway; I … Continue reading →

It’s like 9/11 or the holocaust, if we don’t remember, it might happen again.  I derive strength from reading the stories of holocaust survivors.  My mother in law from my first marriage was a German War Bride, made to marry … Continue reading →

We are 3 generations of women in my family now that have experienced abusive relationships.  My mother lived as a young woman in the depression era; the motto for women in those days and the fifties was “get married, have … Continue reading →