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A church community where people don't get divorced, they work on their marriage. it is shameful to have to admit you find yourself in that situation and it keeps so many people to be victims, afraid they won't be believed and afraid people will think less of them for having been in that situation. >> jenny, i want to go back to one word you used there, which is the word weak. which is an image people might have of people who stay. that's why i find your explanation for staying as long as you did so powerful but there's also -- in that decision to stay, there is it seems to me in the way you de...

And then the shame builds. and to tell someone you're in the situation when it's not something talked about openly, when there are myths and misconceptions about what an abusive situation looks like, it's shameful to have to say that's me, i'm in one. when you're educated, when you come from a family of upstanding harvard graduates when you're in a church community where people don't get divorced, they work on their marriage. it is shameful to have to admit you find yourself in that situation and it keeps so many people to be victims, afraid they won't be believed and afraid people will think ...