Freedom Over Fear: Escaping the Cycle of Abuse
The thing about GBV is that nobody ever thinks it will happen to them. We all hope and expect that relationships will work, and GBV is something that never crosses anyone's mind until it happens, and it feels like a bad nightmare that one always wants to wake up from. Today, more and more marriages have broken because of GBV and have left people both physically and mentally scarred, and for the unlucky ones, dead. But why choose to go through this route if there is always a solution of walking away? No life has to be lost because of a relationship. I know relationships are hard because they involve both the body and the heart, but if we are not able to rationalize every situation, then who are we? Let's learn to walk away from things that destabilize both our physical and mental states. If we walk away, then a life is saved, and more and more people can focus on their well-being and get into relationships that fulfill them. To the women or men who are still in an abusive relati...