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Montanaman Even if you "do everything right"... the police are reluctant to place you in a place of safety.
If you speak out, they just send you back to the Hell that you came from - how is that any better???
I did everything right... I escaped... I called the police... I told - yet, I'm still in the Hell hole I escaped from that night.
Talking certainly didn't help me when the choice I got was to go back or to go to the town where my abuser lived between the ages of 18 and 38. Yes, he knows that area better than me - and he has friends in that area.
How is this keeping me safe and protected???