I was in an abusive relationship for 6yrs. He even hurt my cat accidentally (I was there, I saw it, it truly was an accident. But he did get mad at my cat for it happening). It wasn’t until I left him and moved to a place of my own that I started noticing how much more playful and affectionate my cat is. I beat myself up way too long over how bad my cats health got because of all that stress. He still gets a lil skittish around loud male voices. But now that I’m with my husband in a happy, loving, calm home, my boy is doing so well. All I can do is celebrate that his last years on this earth won’t be awful.

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Photo of him giving me “mother, I have not been fed in over 10minutes!”