If you were to pass by the ordinary home I grew up in, you might assume that a healthy, normal family lived there. What you wouldn't see was the dehumanizing domestic violence, including threats to my life that went on behind those doors. I went on to marry an abusive man who fathered my children, and subsequently nearly killed me. I did everything possible to survive in spite of the violence, but it wasn't until one day when I looked into the faces of my children that I knew in my deepest being that I had to get free. The cycle of abuse had to end. This is my story. A physical, emotional,...