Why did I make this site?

I don't really know where to start on this one. When I first started in 1998 this site was real small, mostly just my story and a couple of links. I made it at that time for an outlet, I had been holding it in for so long!! I have shared my deepest thoughts with others and opened up a whole new book.
This brings me to the here and now. I have had alot of e-mail about this site, some have been "thanks for helping me" and others have been questions about violence. Then yet again, I have some people say that is so nice of you to open your heart.
I have continued with these pages with hopes that maybe one person will say hey, that sounds like me or what can I do to help?
I am in no way a doctor or lawyer that can give proffesional help.
I am just someone who cares, who can lend an ear and open my heart.
I am not ashamed of my past, because that is what it is, "my past"
I have been asked, "If you could go back and change 1 thing in your life, what would that be?" I know, most are probably saying, life without domestic violence. No, that is not it, I would have graduated school. Not the answer that you thought? and why? For all that I have been through, there was a reason, maybe to help someone else, maybe to be a stronger person? I will never know, I know that if I never met my abuser I would not have 4 beautiful chilren! Nor would I be the person that I am today!
So the bottom line, I just want to help other people realize that there is a problem, there are solutions, and they are not alone!