Leaving an abusive relationship

Imagine it, 17 years old, still a child in all respects. She gets married 1 month 1 day after turning 17 years old. He's almost 8 years older than her. She likes to party and he enables it. He love his alcohol, he loves his marajuana, who knows what else there is. She tries to stand in front of his vehicle because he's drunk and high and still wants to drive somewhere. She hangs on to the grill while he yanks her off of it and almost rips the skin completely off her fingers. He goes anyways with no apology and no care other than he's going to the store for more beer.

Not much longer they get into an argument because he came home wasted and passed out on the floor. He gets mad and backhands her across the face and tells her how stupid she is.

A while and lots of abuse (both verbal and physical) later. She finds herself in Michigan and pregnant in the middle of winter. He closes her up in a house with no car, no heat, and no food. She fears for her unborn child after losing 10 pounds and getting pulled by her hair across the floor. She goes back home.

He comes back and says he's sorry and is clean and the abuse will never happen again. She reconciles. He lives with her at her parents house with the baby. She works, he doesn't. She's pregnant again. She cashes her check to pay her bills and buy the baby diapers. He takes it and lies about what he did with it.

That the final straw for her. To take food and necessities away from her is one thing, but to take it away from her child is completely different. She's scared, she's lost, she feels so alone. How is she going to do this? How is she going to be ok "by herself"? How is she going to take care of 2 babies at the oh so young age of 19?

That girl was me! I'm living proof it can be done. It's not easy to get out of an abusive relationship. Especially when you've been so torn down you have nothing good or positive to feel about anything anymore. The only thing you can do is get out! Nobody deserves to be hit, degraded, or sexually assaulted! Think highly enough of yourself to get out of a situation like that! Love yourself enough to say "enough is enough"! It doesn't matter what you've done, what you haven't done, or what other people think about you! YOU DESERVE BETTER THAN AN ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP!!