harmonious relationship] it, and I was thinking of the children’s schooling.” Asked if she would file case against him for VAW as a woman, S8 stated, “Si, para envisti yo para na de amon derecho, cay sabe yo jende lang comigo ta bombia, jende lang comigo ta patcha, o ta insulta todo’l dia. Jende lang canamon ta hace sentí, para jende mas canamun manda sentí pa (Yes, that I may fight against our rights, because I know that I am not the only who was boxed, insulted and emotionally hurt that he may not hurt us further).” Researchers’ Observations: S8 is one wife of 2 decades who has been abused physically, psychologically, and emotionally. With their 4 children, she has survived the 20 years of living together “for the children’s sake.” She rants on with her experiences as a battered woman yet presented a story defending her husband on his ability to provide financial support, as she unspeakingly sets pride that she is the legal wife. Analysis: S8 has misconceptions on her rights as a woman, as a wife, and she has misconstrued her corresponding role as mother and wife. She needs to be helped in such aspect, on the better appreciation of her role as a woman, as a human being, a human companion for life. Survivor 9 S9 is from Pasonanca, who has been married for 19 years. She has 3 children 19,17 and 15 years old. She can no longer recall the specific date or month when her husband starting hurting her but remembered that her husband boxed her on the arm. She experienced being kicked in different parts of her body and sometimes got insulted with the words, “No hay vos nada (You are nothing) or “No hay gat vos nada (You really are nothing).” She was threatened with being left or abandoned. “Tiene yo miedo queda came broken family y perde tata de amun maga anak (I am scared that we will have a broken family and my children might lose a father).” Sometimes she felt alone but she thinks that it is right to ask help to the barangay because in some way they might help her. If violence would happen again she would not hesitate to report her husband. “Pensaba yo cambia le. Ya pensa yo baka ya puede lang quel ele hace aquel primero y jende ya sucede otra vez (That’s because I thought he would 39