Domestic Violence Survivors - 2 Sure Ways
to Silence You and Your Victimization

by Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D.

Being a domestic violence survivor is quite a job, but navigating the system to secure your safety can feel like a life sentence.

You expect the system to “protect” you and your children. And when you see your case and your cause given lip service over actual remedy-providing service, you wonder, “why?”

You think if you just try harder or communicate clearer with your divorce lawyer, then your case will be brought before the court. And this will provide you with the expected remedy of bringing a halt to your opposition’s ongoing abuse to you.

All the while, your opposition and counsel are planning the next move. What can they do to silence you and your established or alleged victimization?

Here are two common and customary ways perpetrators attempt to silence domestic abuse survivors. You will want to know these strategies well before they are underway, if you expect to end the abuse to yourself before it spirals out of control.

1) Back you into a fraudulent criminal charge.

2) Fabricate your mental illness.

Sounds simple, doesn’t it. Well, it is. These two methods are as old as prostitution and they are very effective in silencing your victimization.

The sooner you know about these classic methods of discrediting and silencing victims of domestic violence, the better you will be able to detect them in their early stages of development and block them from being your next headache.

If you are a domestic abuse survivor, you will want to know all you can about how the system works, and doesn’t work, in order to best protect your children and yourself as you seek remedy for domestic violence.

For more information on how to successfully navigate the system, I invite you to read Legal Domestic Abuse. Dr. Jeanne King, Ph.D. helps people recognize and end domestic abuse at home and in family court.