Let's Talk About It: Domestic Violence Whenime

Let's Talk About It: Domestic Violence When I met Angel, I was 14. When I turned 15, he came to my house to ask for permission to be withme, and my mom said a definite no. After I turned16 and I decided to marry him, I wanted to be withhim for a lot of different reasons. To start, Ithought I was expected to marry him because Iwas intimate with him before, right? So in ourculture, it just doesn't seem right to be withsomebody and then end the relationship orsomething. It's something to last and forever tokeep, right?Has Daddy ever hit you in the stomach when youwere pregnant?Why do you want to know that?How did you feel?Why do you want to know that?Because.How did I feel? Well, I felt hurt and angry. And I feltdouble guilt because I was allowing him to hurtme and I was allowing him to injure thepregnancy.If I ever did say, you know, I'm pregnant, like justplease, right? He said, well, why do I care? Thatbaby's probably not even mine. And it was likethis, not only with my first son. It was like thisthroughout my three other pregnancies.Did you ever feel scared?It was something