On the night before I started University my boyfriend punched me repeatedly on the head. He had fallen asleep at a party, after drinking far too much, and I woke him up – he went into a rage imagining all the guys I would go with at college (so weird as I was really in love with him at the time, and not looking at all at anyone else). He went into a violent haze where he punched me again and again.
I felt all the emotions everyone else does – and totally freaked out by starting a college degree with a black eye. But it was more than a black eye – I had serious concussion but I didn’t know it. My father just said “you can be very difficult”. At college, the tutor said “it must mean your boyfriend really loves you”. Just what I wanted to hear at the time – but so utterly utterly wrong! And such a bad thing to say to a woman who has just been attacked!!!
Two weeks later, I got zigzag vision, migraine. It comes every six months, and I’m scared I may have something serious wrong.
I come from England. Yes, it has made me feel very upset about my father’s reaction.