Download or read book Crazy Love written by Leslie Morgan Steiner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this gripping, compulsively readable story of romantic love and its dreadful underside (Susan Cheever), "Crazy Love" recounts Steiner's experiences as an abused wife--and how she found the courage to leave.

Download or read book Goodbye Sweet Girl written by Kelly Sundberg and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Stunning . . . . This is an immensely courageous story that will break your heart, leave you in tears, and, finally, offer hope and redemption. Brava, Kelly Sundberg." —Rene Denfeld, author of The Child Finder In this brave and beautiful memoir, written with the raw honesty and devastating openness of The Glass Castle and The Liar’s Club, a woman chronicles how her marriage devolved from a love story into a shocking tale of abuse—examining the tenderness and violence entwined in the relationship, why she endured years of physical and emotional pain, and how she eventually broke free. "You made me hit you in the face," he said mournfully. "Now everyone is going to know." "I know," I said. "I’m sorry." Kelly Sundberg’s husband, Caleb, was a funny, warm, supportive man and a wonderful father to their little boy Reed. He was also vengeful and violent. But Sundberg did not know that when she fell in love, and for years told herself he would get better. It took a decade for her to ultimately accept that the partnership she desired could not work with such a broken man. In her remarkable book, she offers an intimate record of the joys and terrors that accompanied her long, difficult awakening, and presents a haunting, heartbreaking glimpse into why women remain too long in dangerous relationships. To understand herself and her violent marriage, Sundberg looks to her childhood in Salmon, a small, isolated mountain community known as the most redneck town in Idaho. Like her marriage, Salmon is a place of deep contradictions, where Mormon ranchers and hippie back-to-landers live side-by-side; a place of magical beauty riven by secret brutality; a place that takes pride in its individualism and rugged self-sufficiency, yet is beholden to church and communal standards at all costs. Mesmerizing and poetic, Goodbye, Sweet Girl is a harrowing, cautionary, and ultimately redemptive tale that brilliantly illuminates one woman’s transformation as she gradually rejects the painful reality of her violent life at the hands of the man who is supposed to cherish her, begins to accept responsibility for herself, and learns to believe that she deserves better.

Download or read book Memoirs of an Abused Wife written by Pauline Rose Evans and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SYNOPSIS Memoirs of an Abused Wife is a tantalizing and heart stopping tale based on a true story of a woman, Paige, whose golden and innocent youth was tainted with the emotions and bitterness spurred by the abuse she suffered under the hands of her ex-husband Kendrick, who displayed a relentless two-faced persona between the gangster-type don and the holy centric Christian. With Paige becoming relentless in her pursuit to freedom and happiness as she continued to make a life for herself and attend to the needs of their new born baby, Natasha, amidst the tension within the eight years of marriage, Kendrick's evil became toxic as he bloodthirstily abused his strength to create more mayhem in her life, until one day she... Follow Paige's timeline of love, passion, drama, intimacy, comedy and growth as she reminisces, relives and relates her moments with her best friend Jada, with hope that Paige's life can be resolute in releasing the pain, hurt, and disappointments in order to live her life purposefully. Memoirs of an Abused Wife is an uplifting story that assures anyone that they can find peace in their storms, laughter in their tears, joy in their pain and sunshine in their rain.

Download or read book A Time to Heal written by Yvonne Jones and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If so, you understand the heartbreak, pain, and guilt that creeps into your life, causing you to question your own reality. In the case of author Yvonne Jones, her uncertainty cost her everything. As she sank further into the physical and mental struggle with her abusive partner, Yvonne felt like a stranger in her own body. Her thoughts were no longer her own. She, as much as she tried, couldn't pull herself from the shackles of her husband's terror. She'd escape, only to be met with an overly-apologetic partner who quickly intensified his anger as soon as she was back in his grips. Slowly her husband's anger turned toward her innocent son. Unfortunately it went too far, and one fateful day her husband took her own son's life. In shock, the following events that culminated in her stay in prison were a blur. It wasn't until she had been locked behind bars did she realize the reality of the situation. In the process, her youngest son was taken in by the state. During her time in prison, Yvonne tackled the trauma that she'd been through. She began a prayer group and frequent bible studies to get her through. Join her as she struggles to regain her independence and self-worth while relying on the only thing in life that's forever—her savior.

Download or read book Memoirs of Victorian Working Class Women written by Florence s. Boos and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-12-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first to identify a significant body of life narratives by working-class women and to demonstrate their inherent literary significance. Placing each memoir within its generic, historical, and biographical context, this book traces the shifts in such writings over time, examines the circumstances which enabled working-class women authors to publish their life stories, and places these memoirs within a wider autobiographical tradition. Additionally, Memoirs of Victorian Working-Class Women enables readers to appreciate the clear-sightedness, directness, and poignancy of these works.

Download or read book Being Mean written by Patricia Eagle and published by She Writes Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Mean is about learning how to acknowledge and live with incomprehensible experiences in the healthiest ways possible. Told in vignettes relative to markers of age and experience, Patricia Eagle reveals the heartbreak and destruction of sexual abuse, from age four to thirteen, by her father. Eagle uses dissociation and numbing in response to his abusive behavior, her mother’s complacency, and as a way to block her own sense of self. How does a child come to know what is safe or unsafe, right or wrong, normal or abnormal? How does a young woman learn the difference between real love and a desire for sexual pleasure stimulated by abusive childhood sexual experiences? Careening through life, Eagle wonders how to trust others and, most importantly, herself. As a mature woman struggling to understand and live with her past, she remains earnest in her pursuit of clarity, compassion, and trust.

Download or read book The Music Box Secrets Revealed Behind My Door written by Amelia Michaels and published by . This book was released on 2022-06-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Music Box, Secrets Revealed Behind My Door, is an insight into my soul. I have written about my real-life struggle as an ordinary woman that has been forced to not only live through domestic violence but survive it. I could be anyone you know. Abused women do not always show physical signs of abuse. The signs could be so subtle that to a casual eye, nothing may seem out of the ordinary. It is not until this woman allows someone into her confidence that the unique individual begins to know the horrors that she faces. The mental, the emotional, and the physical scars that sear her soul, and force her to deal with daily hardships; the things she must survive every day. My memoir does not only focus on the domestic violence events leading into the fight for survival. It explains what led me down the path to a marriage so violent it nearly cost me the lives of not only myself but also my son. This narrative flashes back to forbidden love, the choice I had to make between my heritage, my family, and this passionate relationship. This memoir will take you inside the author's struggle with death after her best friend commits suicide. which then led to her first failed marriage prior to the domestic violence marriage. My story is not just about my right to truly live. It is about my son's right to live a life free of fear and anxiety. Just like me, he was forced to suffer through a violent marriage. But his story, our story, went even further. He was forced to visit his biological father, which threatened not only his life but the life of his mother. He had to deal with a father that took his rage out completely on him during the weekend visitations required by the courts. The Music Box, Secrets Revealed "Behind My Door" is our story. It is our fight to live free of oppression. The narrative depicts the violence within the marriage as well as the court battles that spanned two attorneys and two courthouses in North Carolina.

Download or read book Kerried Away written by Kerri Krysko and published by KAS Confidential . This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kerried Away part two in her series; delves deeper into the dark side of the life and upcoming nuptials - an engagement straight from hell - and the cycle that Kerri, plus her two sons endured. In this dysfunctional, and dangerous liaison, she was to find herself face-to-face with a monster. The Beast she called him; one moment a man from a fairy tale and the next her worst nightmare. He would shove a camera in front of her face and interrogate her for hours, then give her diamonds the next day, only to beat her the day after. The real became the unreal, even delusional - to that point that in her reality, she didn't mind him touching other woman as long as he didn't touch her. She had no one, he had everyone. The power of the patch she called it for a time, until her darkness became her salvation and the world became her future. To sort it all out, she kept a journal. Furtively writing notes, trusting no one and hiding them. She lived in constant fear that her husband might find them, and murder her; force her into a bathtub , (so blood wouldn't get all over the house) and cut her up in pieces - pieces that were to be left for her children to find. Kerri survived and her life story continues here.....

Download or read book In the Dream House written by Carmen Maria Machado and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Download or read book To Be Brave written by Karla McGray and published by Little Pine Press. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple question ignites a journey into family stories of domestic violence, murder, and escape. Stories of courage and bravery emerge as three Minnesota women strive to save and heal themselves.

Download or read book Tomorrow My Sunshine Will Come written by Jennifer C. Foxworthy and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following accounts are true stories from women who survived abusive relationships. This book is to provide hope and inspiration to those who have yet to find their voice and overcome.

Download or read book Women in Rock Memoirs written by Marika Ahonen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in Rock Memoirs vindicates the role of women in rock music. The chapters examine memoirs written by women in rock from 2010 onwards to explore how the artists narrate their life experiences and difficulties they had to overcome, not only as musicians but as women. The book includes memoirs written by both well-known and lesser-known artists and artists from both inside and outside of the Anglo-American sphere. The essays by scholars from different research areas and countries around the world are divided into three parts according to the overall themes: Memory, Trauma, and Writing; Authenticity, Sexuality, and Sexism; and Aging, Performance, and the Image. They explore the dynamics of memoir as a genre by discussing the similarities and differences between the women in rock and the choices they have made when writing their books. As a whole, they help form a better understanding of today's possibilities and future challenges for women in rock music.

Download or read book Religion and Domestic Violence in Early New England written by Abigail Abbot Bailey and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an amazing study, a memoir which provides insight intofamily abuse in 18th century America.... a significant volume which enhances ourknowledge of social and religious life in New England. It is also a movingcontribution to the literature of spirituality." -- Review andExpositor "Students of American culture are indebted to AnnTaves for editing this fascinating and revealing document and for providing it withfull annotation and an illuminating introduction." -- American StudiesInternational "This is above all an eminently teachable text, which raises important issues in the history of religion, women, and the family andabout the place of violence in American life." -- New EnglandQuarterly ..". stimulating, enlightening, and provocative..." -- Journal of Ecumenical Studies Abigail Abbot Bailey wasa devout 18th-century Congregationalist woman whose husband abused her, committedadultery with their female servants, and practiced incest with one of theirdaughters. This new, fully annotated edition of her memoirs, featuring a detailedintroduction, offers a thoughtful analysis of the role of religion amidst the trialsof the author's everyday life.

Download or read book Woman of Steel written by Marilyn Lee and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woman of Steel is the memoir of Mary growing up in a hostile home, enduring rape, beatings, slave-like conditions and atrocious abuse, by a mother who wished she had never been born. Her story begins at the end of WWII, in farm country in New York. Mary also tells of her private moments including the paranormal and visits with a favored extra-terrestrial. She tells her intriguing story demonstrating her will to not just survive the harsh conditions she finds herself experiencing, and what she did to overcome it all so she could thrive. Readers will weep for Mary as she suffers untold cruelties inflicted upon by her parents, will wonder at the paranormal experiences that give Mary comfort, and will feel Mary's anguish when she allows herself to feel her own pain in her private moments. And readers will cheer her on when Mary stands against her abusers, each time increasing her power for herself.

Download or read book The Prisoner s Wife written by Asha Bandele and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a favor for a friend, a bright and talented young woman volunteered to read her poetry to a group of prisoners during a Black History Month program. It was an encounter that would alter her life forever, because it was there, in the prison, that she would meet Rashid, the man who was to become her friend, her confidant, her husband, her lover, her soul mate. At the time, Rashid was serving a sentence of twenty years to life for his part in a murder. The Prisoner's Wife is a testimony, for wives and mothers, friends and families. It's a tribute to anyone who has ever chosen, against the odds, to love.

Download or read book Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington written by Margaret Cockburn Conkling and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Seeds of Violence written by B.J. Mitchell and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about domestic violence, and the devastating effects it has on children in abusive homes, so it is addressed to all people in abusive relationships. This book is about children in both abusive and non-abusive homes who are exposed to violence in their music, their video games, their movies, their schools, and almost every area of their lives, so it is addressed to parents, who are the only people who can do anything about it. This book is about a society that turns a blind eye to the growing violence in every aspect of our lives, so it is addressed to elected officials, indeed to everyone in this country who sees just how uncivilized we have become. We have become a country of large 'me first" egos with souls obscured by money, greed, and power. We have forgotten how to listen to our souls telling us what is right and wrong. We are a country of religions instead of God. There is a difference. You will learn from this book how parents can dramatically reduce violence among teens, and eventually on a broad scale. Here are some reasons why this is important: It is estimated that some 3.3 million children in the U.S. between the ages of 3 and 17 are at risk for exposure to family violence. 62% of teen mothers are prior victims of sexual abuse, primarily from stepfathers, mothers' boyfriends, family members, and others they trust. 33% of teen girls are in abusive dating relationships before they are out of high school. 35% of women who are killed in the U.S. are murdered by a boyfriend or husband; 25% of them are 15-24 years old. 90% of men in prison came from abusive homes. These are frightening statistics. You will also learn PJ.Pokeberry's Ten Commandments of Self Esteem. It is time to be aware that self-esteem is not created simply from telling a child that he/she is wonderful-especially when it isn't true. You will read about the 'Eden Philosophy," which is based in quantum physics and suggests that God can be described in scientific terms. It expresses a particular view of the purpose of life, the importance of individual communications with the soul, and how to tell the difference between information that is truly coming from the soul as opposed to that which comes from the ego. It will also explain the importance of finding and pursuing your own life philosophy. This book will also take you into the world I experienced with a true psychic, and a siance during which I established my own description of God, and thoughts about the reality and role of spirit guides and angels. Adding to our tools for combating violence, there is a discussion of the role of classical music in preventing the disruptive behavior of children in the classroom. The study showed a drop from 12% of children who did not study music being disruptive to 8% of those studying music being disruptive. Is this significant? Of course it is. ANY reduction in violent tendencies in children is beneficial. Several other studies are included which show how this type of music helps children to learn and how it develops their cognitive skills. Of course, this type of book would not be complete without a discussion of the historical violence caused by differences of opinion about God. This book includes material from my own doctoral dissertation on the differences between liberal values and conservative values as reflected insermon topics. While differences of opinion can be healthy and productive, they can also breed a violent society-one which creates hate crimes such as attacks on homosexuals and minorities, and the bombing of abortion clinics. Finally, this book is a call-to-arms for all those who want to work actively for a more civilized and peaceful society. This must be a collective movement, but it calls for individual effort. It will not be easy, for powerful economic forces w