love hurts.

Love Hurts – Valentine’s Day Campaign

LOVE HURTS.

“This is the time of year we are meant to be in love. We feel like outsiders if we aren’t celebrating. Romantic dinners for 2, candle lit dinners, presents, heart felt sentiments and cuddly toys. It reads like a over done episode of the generation game or crackerjack, arms over following with gifts (without the cabbages) with joy and smiles all round. You might have seen our post and thought more overly soppy rose petals and scrolled on.

 

But lets get real….

Sometimes love hurts … it isn’t meant to and it doesn’t start out that way. But for some people Valentine’s Day, and lets be honest every other day of the year, isn’t quite lovely. I think to some degree we all understand what domestic abuse is. We have seen dramatic depictions on soaps like EastEnders, seen shocking things in the news. However, it isn’t always that obvious and we don’t recognise signs when we see them.

 

The way we view ourselves changes within abusive relationships. The way we measure our value becomes dependant on the views of the other person and we don’t recognise that our internal monologue is changing and we are devaluing ourselves.

You might be thinking what has all this got to do with a 20 second short about some rose petals and a bin on fire, and I get that the two things are kind of abstract.

 

I wanted to catch your attention and say that:

1. Things can look beautiful on the outside and be dangerous and damaging on the inside.

2. We want romantic love, even when we know things are not right the desire to continue to make things right prevails which leads to damage and destruction. (Emotionally and physically.)
3. Fire is properly symbolical of rebirth that whole phoneix in the fire thing. And even in a small way I wanted to say that it is possible to survive and thrive after experiencing domestic abuse. Linked below are a number of resources and services that can offer support to people that have experienced or are experiencing domestic abuse.”