Domestic violence , also known as domestic abuse , spousal abuse , battering , family violence , dating abuse , and intimate partner violence IPV , is a pattern of behavior which involves the abuse by one person against another in an intimate relationship such as marriage , cohabitation , dating or within the family.
It can be experienced by persons in heterosexual or same-sex relationships. Forms of domestic violence include physical , emotional , verbal , economic and sexual abuse , which can range from subtle, coercive forms of abuse to violent physical abuse that results in disfigurement or death. In the past year or so I have been intimately affected by domestic violence on at least 3 occassions.
I was shocked to discover that she had been murdered some time ago by her boyfriend and that her story had been a media sensation. I looked it up online and was saddened, shocked, dismayed, enraged, and just boiling as the story I read. What happened to her seemed senseless and cruel and I could not understand why something like that happened to someone as sweet and bubbly as Miss Kimberly.
There aren't too many things in the world that you can say that about. But this is one of them. It seemed to be that her husband had murdered her, her mother, and their three kids before committing suicide. He was a police officer, if I recall correctly, and when he didn't show up for work his fellow officers went to his house to discover the gruesome scene.
I read the woman's Facebook page and she knew there was something wrong with her relationship. She had cryptically written that she had "some tough decisions" to make and that she "needed someone to talk to.
