She was the woman that walked out of domestic violence because she understood clearly what this meant for her. She knew that this kind of an environment would ruin her kids, two beautiful girls she had sired out of love and even when the love ceased to exist in the union she still loved them.
But what did the society around her do? Yes they did something that made her loath her very own existence. They judged her in every dimension possible; the fact that she was a career woman did not make it any easy for her. The fact that she had job and bought the first car in the family made fellow women in the village boil with rage. How? How did she even know how to drive in the first place? She was a woman!
The violence was not only physical, but emotional and psychological too. She feared that if anything happened to her,her next generation will understand that it is okay for a man to hit you to death or make you sink in to depression and suicidal tendencies would eventually set in. She was afraid because she had harbored such thought time and again but when she finally hit rock bottom she walked.
She had no place to go, her father’s house was not an option because that is where domestic violence reigned. She thought of what she saw her mother go through and she could not undergo the same trauma she had as a kid, neither could she let her kids go through a more mature form of violence than that in her house.
The pain of a mother could not let her leave her children with the monster of a husband she had, her view on humanity had changed drastically and the only sane people she saw in her life were here daughters. She hated her parents and more so her mother for not standing up for herself when she had the ability to walk.
She now realized that the violence at home pushed her into marriage to this man who seemed more caring than her father and mother put together but he had lived to prove her wrong. She thought of killing the bastard but that will only cause more suffering for she valued human life. So, she walked and never looked back
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