Skylar grew up in a Christian home with parents who loved and respected each other. Because she had never witnessed abuse or trauma in her own home, she didn’t foresee either of these in her future relationships. “For people who come from good stable households, how could you ever end up in abuse?” she recalls thinking. “Abuse seemed like something that happened to other people but would never happen to me.”

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