These women needs to be helped and put in a very safe place where the boyfriend or husband cannot find them. Sending them to family is not a great idea or even her friends.

ssgncng2- I find that you were so bluntly told "we dont service men" because that is a complete and utter lie. I have counseled male DV victims at InterAct MYSELF! InterAct provides safety and support to ALL people of DV. Men included.

lisalisa682001 - Please, please, please get the help you need and do not let ANYONE manipulate and lie to you to keep you from doing so. It is strictly confidential.

There is no reason you should even have to TELL your job you are going, let alone any risk of losing it and I can't imagine any employer wishing their employee wasn't taken care of.

"I have recently gotten out of an 11-year emotionally abusive relationship, which had started to turn physical. Anyhow, I had mentioned to him that I was going to go to counseling at Interact. " lisalisa

If you're talking to him about this kind of thing, you're not out of the "relationship".

" Where is family and friends?"

The ones we can't be bothered speaking to because we're texting some stranger? The ones we don't eat dinner with because we're all so busy with absolute dreck? The kids we put on the school bus or waaaaaay in the back of the room-sized, video-equipped (so we don't have to talk, dream or think) SUV? The elders we've dismissed because they wanted to hear from us every so often and were "needy" that way?

Going by 'welfare is a trap' 's screen name, I think s/he was sarcastic. Airborne Daddy, I hope you were too.

"Sadly, abusive women will not acknowledge their anger or self-control issues; they have no remorse, and refuse to take responsibilities for their actions."

Unlike abusive men.

What I find irritating about this article and some of the posters here is that they operate under the delusion that domestic violence = stuff men do to women. The truth is a plurality of domestic violence situations are mutual. Men abusing passive women is second and women abusing men is third. However, Interact is begging a lawsuit as they accept government funding yet refuse to aid men. My son's now ex-wife put a gun in his face and called us on several occasions screaming at us that she was going to "kill your ******* son". HE was prosecuted for the joke charge of assault on a female when he pushed her away and ran out of the house. She thought it was funny and laughed/bragged of it later. The Deputy that arrived on the scene refused to listen when told she had a gun, the DA's only concern was securing a conviction at the behest of Interact. Interact told my son, point blank, they don't offer services for men, I was there. We paid for a private psychologist who diagnosed PTSD.

LisaLisa- You will NOT lose your job. It is totally confidential. I volunteer there. I can give you the straight up facts. Please reach out and get the help you are looking for.

I would really appreciate it. I just refuse to believe that a person would lose their job for going to Interact for counseling(???) lisalisa682001

I agree with monami! Firstly, why would you loose your job? What is the "reasoning" behind that statement. If you are out of that relationship cut all ties, move, change your phone number, change email address, change your FB account. Be done! It's control and manipulation. No one can make you feel stupid, worthless or inferior unless you allow it. DON'T ALLOW IT!!!! Take charge of your life and don't look back.

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