{"id":242,"date":"2016-08-14T20:01:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-15T01:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/?p=242"},"modified":"2016-08-18T20:13:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T01:13:48","slug":"no-silence-part-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/2016\/08\/14\/no-silence-part-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"No Silence: Part III"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=domesticabuse%20%23ipv%20%23domesticviolence%20%23survivor%20%23nosilence&#038;via=theworthydad\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Been a little busy with work, but I finally got a chance to make a few more #nosilence images.\u00a0I&#8217;ll be posting them on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/theworthydad\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/theworthydad\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0later on, but you get to see them first here.<\/p>\n<p>This first one describes the pressure I felt to not say anything about my abuse. My abuser even manipulated my family to get them to pressure me to stay and work on the marriage. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t know who to talk to. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t know any other male that had ever been abused. I thought it was just me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-240\" src=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trapped_in_silence_ig.jpg\" alt=\"Don't be trapped in silence\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trapped_in_silence_ig.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trapped_in_silence_ig-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trapped_in_silence_ig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/trapped_in_silence_ig-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Like I&#8217;ve said before, not all scars are visible. \u00a0A broken bone will heal, relatively quickly, but a broken sense of self worth can take a very very long time to heal, if ever. I may look healthy on the outside, but inside I have scars. \u00a0Some will probably be with me for the rest of my life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-239\" src=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cant_photoshop_ig.jpg\" alt=\"Can't Photoshop my scars away\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cant_photoshop_ig.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cant_photoshop_ig-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cant_photoshop_ig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cant_photoshop_ig-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A lot of people think abuse is physical, and since me are bigger and stronger than most women, they come to the incorrect conclusion that men can&#8217;t be abused. I assure you, you can most definitely be abused without being physically beaten. \u00a0Just because she didn&#8217;t hit me, doesn&#8217;t mean she didn&#8217;t abuse me.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-244 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/believe_im_broken_ig.jpg\" alt=\"Believe I'm broken\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/believe_im_broken_ig.jpg 2550w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/believe_im_broken_ig-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/believe_im_broken_ig-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/believe_im_broken_ig-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=domesticabuse%20%23ipv%20%23domesticviolence%20%23survivor%20%23nosilence&#038;via=theworthydad\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a little busy with work, but I finally got a chance to make a few more #nosilence images.\u00a0I&#8217;ll be posting them on\u00a0Instagram\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter\u00a0later on, but you get to see them first here. This first one describes the pressure I felt to not say anything about my abuse. My abuser even <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/2016\/08\/14\/no-silence-part-iii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  No Silence: Part III<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personal-story","category-psa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworthydad.serveblog.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}