FIGURE 1. Stop.

NOTE: “When you are part of an abusive relationship and a person tries to talk about it (violence), we immediately hang up the `stop' sign. We isolate ourselves from everyone that tries to make us deal with the situation that we try to avoid. I lived this way for fear of being pointed at and discriminated. To accept that we are victims is seen as something bad and shameful within our families and society” (Norma, 40).