CCChat_The-Jess-Hill-Interview

A conversation with Jess Hill
time it’s set in place, to unpick it
is probably going to take longer
than it actually took to have it put
into you, you know what I mean?
M: That’s exactly my experience.
J: When people try to otherise
domestic abuse, they really don’t
understand. What we’re talking
about is something that is
absolutely rife throughout
society. It’s the apotheosis of the
whole ‘ power over’ model . It’s at
its most insidious, at its most
total and at its most petty.
M: Something I have noticed, it is
my experience and also the
experience of many people I’ve
talked to, is that when you’re in a
relationship, that is really
controlling, you don’t necessarily
realise it is controlling, and
you’re constantly making excuses
for them, giving them the benefit
of the doubt, you know like,
they’ve had a bad upbringing,
they had dreadful exes, that’s just
who they are, they have
abandonment issues and you
willingly start to cede away your
autonomy, to make them feel
better about themselves, but you
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