Why This Book Exists: A Statement of Purpose for the Movement to End Silence
The movement to end domestic violence doesn’t begin in courtrooms or crisis shelters. It begins long before that. It begins quietly. It begins with education, with love, and with care.
It begins when we teach our children what love is, and what it isn’t.
When we learn to name control before it becomes violence.
When we believe survivors the first time.
When we stop asking why they stayed and start asking why they weren’t safe to leave.
This book was never meant to center just one person’s pain. It was written to help others speak what they were never allowed to say. To offer a mirror to those still stuck in silence. To remind someone, maybe you, that love should never require your disappearance.
To end domestic violence, we have to end the silence around it.
That silence lives in churches. In family systems. In courtrooms. In schools. It lives in our language, when we confuse cruelty for passion, when we minimize pain to protect power, when we teach boys to be strong and girls to be small. It lives in the homes no one checks. The bruises no one sees. The doubts we plant in victims before they ever find the courage to speak.
This movement is for the ones still in it.
And for the ones trying to unlearn it.
It’s for survivors. For parents. For partners who want to do better.
For children who watched. For men who never had a safe place to cry.
For anyone choosing to live differently than what they were taught.
If you’re holding this book, you are part of that movement.
How You Can Help
Read and share survivor stories. Stories dismantle shame and educate communities.
Challenge harmful beliefs. Silence and minimization allow abuse to survive.
Support organizations doing the work. A portion of every purchase supports nonprofits serving survivors of domestic abuse.
Offer softness. Offer safety. Offer space. Healing requires all three.
This book is just one part of something bigger. It’s not just poetry. It’s not just memory. It’s a hand held out across the wreckage.
Join the movement. Pass the letters on. Speak what you were never allowed to say.
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