It was an ordinary day when Eve woke up to face yet another message from her husband. She hoped that he hadn’t come home last night for she wasn’t up to cleaning up his mess this early. It was the first day of school for her children and the last thing she wanted to do was clean up. She just couldn’t fathom mopping another spill nor is she up to picking up another pair of socks. She just couldn’t.
Everyone knows Eve.
Eve is a typical girl next door. She loves music, is part of the school’s drama team, paints her nails red on Valentine’s Day, and gets along with everyone. Eve had dreams of becoming a great lawyer and working in one of the nation’s biggest law firm but her plans got side tracked when she got pregnant with her first child. It wasn’t the way she wanted to walk down the aisle but her best friend continuously assured her that her little baby bump was hardly noticeable. On that day, she believed life had so much more to give and her life with Adam was just starting.
Adam and Eve couldn’t go away on their honeymoon because they had to save up for the baby. Giving birth was an overwhelming experience and Eve was ecstatic. Her life seemed perfect; her life with Adam seemed perfect.
Seemed.
It started one night over a silly dispute. Adam started arguing and accidentally told Eve he was tricked into marrying her. Scheming bitch, he called her. Manipulating whore. My life’s biggest regret. It was different and yet the same every time. He came up with harsher abuses every time… Then he apologized every time.
Scheming, manipulative, mistake, regret, ugly, fat, stupid… The list goes on.
She fought back once when he started painting their life pitch black because she felt like he needed to understand that she was not who he says she was. She tried to fight back, to answer, to explain her point of view and to clear her name just to get a hard slap across her face. She looked at him stunned. Is this really happening to me, she wondered in bewilderment. She looked into his eyes to see whether or not her high school sweetheart felt any shame and she saw none. He started shouting.
Scheming manipulative bitch!
And she cried.
He hunted her insecurities. Made her question her life and every decision she ever makes. Removed all things that made her human, started controlling who her friends were and made sure she cuts all ties with everyone who ever mattered to her. Made sure to turn her into his own toy, his own property.
She said nothing. He slapped her and she said nothing. I can’t get a divorce, I don’t have a job, how can I support my kids? He will surely win custody over them and I’ll never see them again.
He kicked her, and she said nothing. He punched her, and she said nothing. Say what, and to who? There was no one around and the small chores he assigned her were mostly in the house; she had to take permission to go out and had to give a full report when she came back…so she usually stayed at home. It was never worth the hassle to conceal her bruises.
Scheming manipulative bitch.
She stopped caring. She stopped caring how she looked. She stopped caring to cover her bruises even from her children since they already disrespect her and see the arrangement at home as ‘normal’.
She stopped wondering if there is a different life for her out there. Her reality was obstructed by what she heard and saw everyday. Abuse. Verbal and physical abuse.
She stopped thinking for herself and took everything told to her as given truths.
She stopped questioning if she was worthy of living let alone loving.
Loving? Oh he told her he loved her constantly. Before a beating, after a beating, and sometimes during a beating. Why did you make me do this to you? He would say holding her tight after smacking her. Why are you doing this to us? Why do you cause us such misery?
Scheming manipulative bitch.
Eve, the girl next door who wanted to work in one of the country’s biggest law firms took up acting instead. On stage, she paints her nails red for Valentine’s Day, but every day red blood is a part of her attire. On stage, her name was darling wife but backstage she remains the cause of all of the world’s problems.
Scheming manipulative bitch.
#Break the silence, stop the violence.
Bedoor Bluemoon 