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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.

I did some research into domestic violence, and there were some stories that will stay me with forever.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

People that go through what I went through and people going through divorce, it's really a difficulty process; it's heartbreaking and it hurts really bad. It can really mess with your head.

In my experience victims are more concerned with helping their families understand that they are still connected to them. In some rare experiences information comes through that helps understand what happened.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

Anybody that's been through a divorce, and I hope it's something people never have to experience, it's the worse thing in the world.

My father was very abusive, and it was hard for my mother at first to leave because we had depended on him for so long. Sometimes you kind of get adjusted to getting that beating.

I know how domestic violence can affect a family, and I want to do everything I can to stop it from happening to others. The most important thing we can do is teach kids that they can break the cycle.

I want people to realize that the domestic abuse charges happened in 1989. I didn't meet any of them until 1993.