They apologize and promise it won’t happen again. You even wondered if you could possibly be imagining the verbal or physical abuse. Is there ever really a way of knowing that your lover might hurt you?

Mara Glennie joins episode 19 of Sisters Without Shame in aid of a friend in crisis from Jacobsdal who asks what the signs of an abuser are.  

“There is no vaccine for abuse,” says Glennie who is a survivor and the founder of TEARS. Glennie founded the foundation in 2012 and provides access to crisis intervention, advocacy, counselling, and prevention education services for those impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, and child sexual abuse in Mzansi.