In every place you go, around every corner, there are people who are creating and building relationships. Relationships vary from strictly platonic to those that surround families, and some of the relationships you see are romantic ones. Whether the romantic relationship is a couple that has been married for forty years, or a new-found one-month relationship, they are always there. Along with these people in relationships, comes also the complete opposite, those that are single, for reasons that vary from person to person. Then, within all of these groups, you are to find a handful, or maybe more, of people who are victims of domestic violence and abuse.
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“Trigger”, a word that means something vastly different to the people of this world, to some the word “trigger” is simply what you pull to fire a gun, and those in this group are the guns being fired, and the person or thing that brought us make to the moments of pain and suffering are the ones pulling it. The social world of victims of domestic abuse is not one that is meant to create best friends or to even necessarily share your commonalities, instead it is one that stays behind closed doors, one that is rarely spoken of, one that most fail to realize …show more content…
For those on the outside looking in, the view of a victim of domestic violence in the dating scene is very different. Many outsiders view them as broken or damaged goods for some, whereas others may view them as a charity case, or in need of others, possibly counseling. However, for the victims, the leap back into the dating scene is seen as a very huge and progressive step, they see themselves as making moves forward and as they are growing and learning from their past, rather than dwelling on it. This is a very difficult thing for many victims to do.
Unlike many other social groups, this is not one that the members chose to be part of, and it is therefore very difficult to adapt to and accept the impact of this group. By the time the members of this group are prepared to immerse themselves into the dating scene once again, they have learned that the relationship they were in was negative, but still need to find the good in the bad. This is important because it is necessary to learn from this relationship, to notice signs early on of manipulative behaviour and to ensure that they do not act in that way to another, out of spit or