Witness Box Survey

Custody of Truth—A Witness Record

ProjectPS is a neutral, time-limited framework designed to reduce risk during periods of relational volatility while safety is evaluated. It provides structured space without presuming guilt, assigning fault, or requiring visible harm as proof. The framework exists to slow escalation, protect vulnerable parties, and allow clarity to emerge without coercion.

Purpose of the survey

Witness Box exists to gather women’s lived testimony about coercive, controlling, and violent marriages—especially the choices women were forced to make when safety, children, faith, and survival collided.

This form does not determine guilt.
It does not replace law enforcement, courts, or counseling.
It exists to preserve truth that was never safe to tell.

Your answers may be aggregated anonymously to help advocate for safer, more realistic protections for women and children. No identifying details will ever be shared publicly without explicit written consent.

You may stop at any time.

Issues/Concerns

Current responses to relational danger frequently rely on thresholds that require visible harm before intervention occurs. In practice, this places the greatest burden on the individual already carrying the most risk. When escalation is present but proof is incomplete, options narrow quickly—often to confrontation, forced disclosure, or sudden departure—all of which can intensify volatility rather than reduce it.

Silence in these situations is commonly misread as uncertainty, denial, or complicity. In reality, silence is often strategic. Individuals may be assessing safety, weighing consequences, protecting children, livelihoods, reputations, or community standing. The absence of disclosure does not indicate the absence of danger; it often reflects an accurate reading of cost.

Additionally, many existing frameworks conflate separation with judgment. Temporary distance is treated as punishment, admission, or failure, rather than as a neutral tool for stabilization. This collapse of categories leaves little room for pause, clarity, or measured evaluation.

ProjectPS addresses these concerns by recognizing the space between danger and proof, and by introducing a structured, time-limited intervention designed to slow escalation without forcing conclusions.

Purpose

To reduce immediate risk by creating temporary distance while facts, patterns, and safety considerations are evaluated.

Scope

ProjectPS applies to situations involving volatility, coercion, or credible safety concern where traditional mediation or confrontation may increase harm.

Duration

Protective separation is time-limited and reviewed. It is not indefinite exile, punishment, or abandonment.

Ethical Guardrails

The framework prioritizes safety, neutrality, and restraint. It does not function as adjudication, therapy, or discipline.

Who It's For

Appropriate for

  • Faith leaders

  • Counselors and clinicians

  • Legal or advocacy professionals

  • Institutions evaluating risk

Not Intended For

Not intended for

  • Marriage repair processes

  • Mediation or reconciliation

  • Determining fault or innocence

  • Public disclosure or accusation

This protects everyone—including you.

The framework recognizes that testimony often precedes evidence, and that safety may require pause rather than verdict. Listening within ProjectPS does not imply agreement, judgment, or outcome—it establishes conditions under which truth can be evaluated without immediate consequence.

Professional inquiry

This form is not monitored for emergency situations and is not intended for personal disclosures.