My Daughter Says I Ruined Her Childhood by Staying With Her Father

Survivor to Survivor — “My Daughter Says I Ruined Her Childhood by Staying With Her Father” What happens when the child you spent years trying to protect tells you that your decision to stay in an abusive relationship caused them years of pain? Imagine surviving years of emotional manipulation, fear, control, and abuse while doing everything you believed was necessary to hold your family together. You told yourself you were staying for the children. You hoped things would change. You tried to protect them from what was happening behind closed doors. But… Video by YouTube channel.