How Do You Move On After A Physically Abusive Relationship?
By getting out of a physically abusive relationship, you have already taken the first steps to moving forward and getting on with your life. Now that you have secured your physical safety, you need to take care of your emotional and mental well being by taking steps to regain your ability to trust and to rebuild your self-esteem. Cut off all contact. Change your phone number, don’t speak to her, don’t speak to her friends and avoid every place you know he frequents. If you have children, have a social worker or the court systems handle any child support or visitation issues. Be proactive. You may think he will never hurt you again but you can never be too sure. Get a Personal Protection Order or a Temporary Restraining Order to help prevent him from coming after you and hurting you again. If he does, he will go straight to jail. Take in active role in your recovery. It doesn’t happen on its own with the passage of time. You need to actively confront your emotional issues in order to mo
