“He started shaking me,” she says, “yelling that I would never be able to hide from him.He told me he was going to beat the s— out of me.” Terrified and sobbing, Sarah escaped into a classroom and sought help from a teacher.
Learn other ways how unhealthy and abusive relationships work by exploring our power and control wheel.Joe got a two-day suspension from school, the school confirms, for drinking.That night, Joe called to apologize; Sarah told him it was over.For a moment, she had no idea where she was; then her boyfriend’s face came into focus.They were at a party, and Joe (not his real name), the cute football player she’d been dating, had kicked her, hard, propelling her into a wall, where she had hit her head and blacked out.Quickly, though, sweet talk gave way to insults and demands and, finally, physical abuse. 12, 2005, kicking incident, Sarah, a willowy strawberry blonde with a spray of freckles across her cheeks, stood in line at the family division of the Santa Clara County, Calif., court clerk’s office, waiting to pick up a copy of a restraining order.“I never would have thought,” Sarah says now, “something like this would happen to me.” Once a hidden problem, teen dating violence is getting some serious attention.Learn more about healthy relationships with our handouts and videos.Sarah Van Zanten, 15, was lying on the floor, an ice pack on her aching ribs.“I was seeing Sarah less and less,” recalls Jeremy Carlson, 18.“It became kind of a joke—that she was too busy with school and crew.” Sarah kept her doubts to herself. “I think it has to do with being in one of the first relationships of your life. It made me feel loved.” But her parents, Kate and Mark, a computer software salesman, were worried.
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