Porter ex-wife: Strength doesn’t ‘inoculate a person against abuse’

WASHINGTON (DC)
CNN

February 13, 2018

By Eli Watkins

WH staff secretary Rob Porter reresigned last week

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Colbie Holderness, one of the women who have gone public with allegations of spousal abuse by a former top White House aide, wrote in a piece published Monday evening that abuse affects many different types of people.

“Being strong — with excellent instincts and loyalty and smarts — does not inoculate a person against abuse. It doesn’t prevent her from entering into a relationship with an abuser. Abuse often doesn’t manifest itself early on — only later, when you’re in deep and behind closed doors. The really ugly side of Rob’s abuse only came out after we married, following three years of dating,” Holderness wrote in a Washington Post op-ed.

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