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Re-learn spread

This is another spread done based on the weekly prompt. It is pretty personal and I thought of not posting it but then maybe this will resonate with someone else. The prompt for me brought up re-learning to feel and to love since this is something that affected my husband and I. Then it brought up rage over abuse in general against people who are bullies, whether they be terrorists, sociopaths etc. My husband’s step-father was very abusive to him and it has profoundly affected his life. He excused it for a long time because he felt so defeated, but now he has gained self-respect and knows he didn’t, nor does anyone deserve to be mistreated. I just can’t stand how easily some people justify horrendous actions. So the spread says, “To those who would abuse, oppress, and destroy—We declare War! The page has a drawing that my husband did about the way his step-dad made him feel as a child. Real men don’t abuse children. His dad thought he had to beat him to make him tough and a ‘real man’. There will be hell to pay. I have to believe there is ultimate justice in the world and that people who do these types of things will somehow get what’s coming to them.