Control and Empowerment: My Experience in an Abusive Relationship
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By Alyssa Michener Trigger Warning: Sexual Assault and Abuse references Ever since I was a little girl, I had these big ideas about what romance was. As I grew older, I realized that most guys my age weren’t like the men in the movies, but I still had those idealizations about finding “true love” in […]