Growing up in Arnaudville, Louisiana, Twahna P. Harris always knew
who she was. “I was never one who cared what people thought of me
because I had my own identity,” she says. “I knew what I wanted to be in
life, and I was driven.”
That all changed when, as a 21-year-old college student, Harris found herself in a domestic abuse relationship.
“I didn’t run to domestic violence, I woke up in it,” she says. “I would have never thought, and there it was one day, a slap across the face. And I was in total disbelief.” That slap led to mental, emotional and sexual abuse.
Domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship used by one partner to gain or maintain power or control over the other.
Read the rest on the Baton Rouge Parents Magazine website.
That all changed when, as a 21-year-old college student, Harris found herself in a domestic abuse relationship.
“I didn’t run to domestic violence, I woke up in it,” she says. “I would have never thought, and there it was one day, a slap across the face. And I was in total disbelief.” That slap led to mental, emotional and sexual abuse.
Domestic violence, or intimate partner violence, is a pattern of abusive behavior in any relationship used by one partner to gain or maintain power or control over the other.
Read the rest on the Baton Rouge Parents Magazine website.