Tag Archives: intimate partner violence

Picking Up The Pieces

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Lisette d. Johnson

It’s not the tragedies that kill us.  It’s the messes. Dorothy Parker How do you implode a family? You control intimidate berate humiliate blame neglect threaten   With drinking cheating jealousy names isolation games poking pinching pushing pulling blocking hitting choking … Continue reading →

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Exit Here…part 2

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Lisette d. Johnson

9. No one knew. Everyone saw someone so different than who we experienced. They saw who I saw when I first loved him. Not who he really was, or had become. 10. It didn’t exist. He acted as though nothing … Continue reading →

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Hidden

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Lisette d. Johnson

I’m pulled into another memory that emerges seemingly from nowhere. An unidentified visual or sound triggers an image of M and I arguing in the kitchen. I want to go to the store for a yellow onion. We have a … Continue reading →

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Soccer

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Lisette d. Johnson

My son started playing soccer when he was 4. Every season, every game, I have been here. The only games I missed where when I was in the hospital. Three weeks after it happened I came back to watch. It … Continue reading →

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The Secret Garden

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Lisette d. Johnson

There is a story inside me that longs to be told.  It is a story of an emergence from a dispassionate life created amidst the daily chaos and years of pushing it down and back. I cannot tell you the story; speak … Continue reading →

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