Mom, Tom's hitting me!

And he would actually say, while he was beating me, Don't you cry. Don't you dare cry.

One user, Salvador, left the following comment on Carme Chaparro's blog entitled 'My husband hits me a normal amount.

And everyone was supposed to be happy in that community and, in fact, my life was hell. I lived with an alcoholic father who beat me and molested me, and it was all inside that.