Jared Hayes

For a long time, I never asked myself, Am I being abused? I was asking completely different questions. Why am I creating so many problems? Why can't I keep my marriage peaceful? Why does everything somehow become a fight? Why can't I make her …

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I thought the fights were the problem. The shouting.The accusations.The emotional breakdowns. That’s what I kept focusing on. That’s what I kept trying to fix. I thought: “If we can just stop fighting… everything will be …

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If it was bad all the time, I would have left much earlier. That’s the truth. It wasn’t constant abuse.It wasn’t daily chaos.It wasn’t always painful. There were good days. Days where everything felt normal.Days where we laughed.Days …

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