Thank you, My counsellor recently put me in touch with a local support group tailored for victims and witnesses of DV so I’m hoping to go forward with that, I just hate talking about it in person, I find it very uncomfortable! But i know it needs to be done. Yes that is a very good point about the police, I hadn’t really thought of it that way before. I’m trying to leave my dad behind I haven’t seen him for a year and he makes no effort to keep in touch, i think it’s more convenient for him with his new family. I am very close to my mum and we do talk about it occasionally but I think she feels very guilty for not ‘protecting’ us. I don’t know whether it would be a good idea to write him a letter as a kind of closure exercise, i’m not sure if it would make me feel better or not.
