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Britney Henderson from Burlington Wisconsin came face to face with dating abuse her freshman year in high school
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I'd never had a boyfriend before and I fell for the senior football star and it was about 4 months into our relationship
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when I started noticing slight changes Britney says her boyfriend criticized her clothing isolated her from her
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friends and family even controlled her diet but his temper terrified her most of all he had said something and I
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thought it was funny and so I laughed and he turned me and he pinned me up against the wall by my throat and he got
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in my face and started yelling at me for laughing at him did you tell anybody about that mm why not fear fear of what
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he would do next Britney's father eventually stepped in and ended the relationship for her now 21 and in grad
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school in Austin Texas she volunteers at the national dating abuse helpline thank
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you for calling love is respect are you safe to talk victims of abuse once you're involved in it it sucks you in
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this Situation's not your fault you always deserve you know to be safe and support what do you think would have
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happened if you stayed in the relationship there are some heart-wrenching stories out there of a
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lot of victims and what they experience and I'm very thankful that mine never made it to that point