I left twice, because the first time I left, I was naive enough to believe him when he made it seem like my leaving was a big wake up call for him to change the way he was acting, and asked me to come home. The first time, I went to a women’s shelter. I didn’t like the idea, because I had no idea what it was like, and I expected it to be something like a homeless shelter, only with just abused women as the residents. It was actually nothing like that, and I would recommend that anyone who is in need of shelter from an abusive situation should look into this as an option. It’s typical for DV shelters to be a single family house, with around ten people living in it. Shared living room and kitchen space, and a bedroom with maybe another person or two in it. They typically offer considerable amounts of help with getting the things a person coming out of a dv situation tends to need. Everything from clothing and toiletries and a gift certificate for a haircut so I looked decent at job inter...
