When 19-year-old Justine fell for a mature and charming military man, she believed she had found her forever. But the husband she once trusted to protect her became the very person she needed protection from. 

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about justine | 01:19

justine’s story | 02:14

questions & answers | 28:20

closing thoughts | 37:00

charity & organizations | 38:00

submit your story | 38:39

disclaimer | 38:40

“This guy came to our house. I had seen a photo of him and my dad, in their, army uniforms. So the very first time I ever met him, I thought he was, like, even better looking.” - Justine

“My parents would like very gingerly tell me like, ‘hey, I don't think he's treating you the way you should be treated.’ I just pushed it aside, and thought that, they just didn't know him as well as I did. They're gonna eventually see how wonderful he is.” - Justine

“I would be laying in bed in the middle of the night and be like, I'm gonna be a statistic. I'm gonna wake up one morning and he's just gonna decide that he's done with me living.” - Justine

“…there had just been so many years of hearing how I was, like, the bad one, I was the bad person, um, and so it took me a long time to, like, break myself of that habit of thinking that I was always in the wrong.” - Justine

Music (CC BY 4.0):

Lost Place Atmospheres (001-003) and Cinematic Suspense Series Episode 004 by Sascha Ende

Very Low Note by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Other Music and Sound Effects by Jalal Mansour Amine, AlesiaDavina, Pixabay, Samuel F. Johanns, UNIVERSFIELD, Yevhenii Kovalenko, Oleksii Holubiev, and Syouki Takahashi from Pixabay

Spacetime by Mountaineer

YWCA of Greater Harrisburg

http://www.ywcahbg.org/

National Domestic Violence Hotline (24/7/365)

Call 1.800.799.SAFE (7233)

Text: START to 88788 

https://www.thehotline.org/

https://www.facebook.com/NationalDomesticViolenceHotline

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