I too, was a victim of DV. Thank god my family took me in a hid me for 2 weeks until I could go to court. I left behind everything. I left the house in what I had on and that was it. My in-laws had my son and refused to give him to me. It was awful. Took a couple of days for them to relinquish him.

I know how hard it is to get out. It's hard to explain to people why you stay. There are no easy answers to the problem.