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	<title>Violence UnSilenced &#187; domestic violence</title>
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		<title>Courtney</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s note: February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month. If you or someone you know is a victim of dating violence, please get help. When I was a freshman in high school I dated a guy who was several years older than me. I was pretty innocent at the time, but he was very physically [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/courtney/' addthis:title='Courtney '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Denni</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How can anyone live through the the pain and write about it ? For me it isn’t easy even after all of these years. It has been 31 years since my entrance into the world of the living. Because for me, the years of pain and panic were dead years. And even now as I [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/denni/' addthis:title='Denni '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/anonymous-17/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t remember a time when he was nice to me.  It was always more than a big brother picking on a little sister.  I had that with my oldest brother.  I knew what that felt like.  It didn&#8217;t hurt and leave physical and emotional reminders. He would look at me with pure hatred in [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/anonymous-17/' addthis:title='Anonymous '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Auntie Jill (by @OhJennyMae)</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/auntie-jill-by-ohjennymae/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 16:04:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Editor's note: Today is the 7th Annual It's Time to Talk Day, sponsored by Liz Claiborne Inc.'s Love Is Not Abuse coalition. We wrote more about that over on BlogHer today, and encourage you to do the same in your own space. Here on Violence UnSilenced today, OhJennyMae is speaking out in honor of her [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/auntie-jill-by-ohjennymae/' addthis:title='Auntie Jill (by @OhJennyMae) '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Talk Day 2011</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/its-time-to-talk-day-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/its-time-to-talk-day-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Thursday, December 8, 2011, is the 7th annual It&#8217;s Time to Talk Day, a day that is, in the words of Violence UnSilenced board member Stacy Morrison, &#8220;dedicated to just this one goal: to start and continue conversations about relationship abuse, domestic violence, and emotional abuse, to join together in making an effort to [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/its-time-to-talk-day-2011/' addthis:title='It&#8217;s Time to Talk Day 2011 '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mariella</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/mariella/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/mariella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 14:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve tried to write this story several times before. I’ve never really managed to finish it. I somehow felt that there were plenty of women who lived through much worse. Women who were abused as children, women who have lived with abusive spouses for years, women who were raped by strangers.  I survived. I grew [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/mariella/' addthis:title='Mariella '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nicky</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/nicky/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/nicky/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought after five years of knowing and dating my ex that I was making a solid choice when I got married. We had only had a handful of disagreements and in all of those I had been the loud one, being what he called &#8220;emotional&#8221; and &#8220;girly.&#8221; However, nothing was ever violently hurtful, he [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/nicky/' addthis:title='Nicky '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Erratic</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/erratic/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/erratic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gone back and forth about sharing this. I feel like my story is private and mine, mine alone. But, I also feel that I need to share it. I don&#8217;t remember most of my childhood. I don&#8217;t know why. People tell me stories of being a kid, a teenager, and I don&#8217;t remember [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/erratic/' addthis:title='Erratic '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>46</slash:comments>
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		<title>I-ris</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/i-ris/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/i-ris/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you answer when people ask, “Was it just emotional abuse?”  I don’t even know what the fuck to say to them.  They obviously don’t know anything about domestic violence.  I know they need to be educated, but how do you teach an alien language to someone? I want to say, “I don’t know… [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/i-ris/' addthis:title='I-ris '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stephanie</title>
		<link>http://violenceunsilenced.com/stephanie-3/</link>
		<comments>http://violenceunsilenced.com/stephanie-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 13:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>maggie, dammit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2009 I was arrested for Assault with Injury-FV in Texas. Instead of going directly to jail, I went to the emergency room for my injuries. Both bones in my left wrist were broken. Curiously, the person I “offended” against, my husband and the father of my child, stayed home. I listed my daughter’s nearest [...]<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://violenceunsilenced.com/stephanie-3/' addthis:title='Stephanie '  ><a class="addthis_button_facebook_like" fb:like:layout="button_count"></a><a class="addthis_button_tweet"></a><a class="addthis_button_google_plusone" g:plusone:size="medium"></a><a class="addthis_counter addthis_pill_style"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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