Domestic Relationships

In 2016, Dr. Angela Mailis, a world-renowned expert on chronic pain management, was brought face-to-face with domestic violence, when an accomplished colleague was murdered by her equally accomplished husband. It was familiar territory for Dr. Mailis, who herself had been involved in an emotionally abusive relationship for 27 years.

Award-winning journalist Rachel Louise Snyder once believed all the common misconceptions about domestic violence: that it happen to an unlucky few; that it’s a matter of poor choices; that if things are dire enough, victims will leave. Her perception changed when she began talking to the victims and perpetrators whose stories she tells in this book.

Are you a silent victim? Many of us bravely walk around with invisible scars from abuse. Domestic violence is not always physical abuse! It can also be emotional, verbal, manipulation, control, stonewalling, financial, and sexual abuse. Take a journey with me to freedom. Maybe you are on the fence or wondering if you are a victim of domestic violence. This book will give you inside details on the effects of domestic violence and tools for planning your exit strategy. I hope my story helps you find the strength and courage you need to make the next best steps.

The oldest of three, Kitty Chappell did her best to shield her brother and sister from their father's abuse, but little could stand in the way of his beatings and vicious remarks. None of them escaped his brutality - not her mother, her siblings, or even their pets. As a well-respected family man in their Texas community in the 1950s, her father enjoyed a sure confidence in his control over his family. His assurance proved correct when he attacked her mother and turned friends against her, aiming shocking accusations at his wife and daughter.

The article discusses NPD and its relationship to changes in the brain and behaviour. Lack of empathy is the hallmark of this disease. Intimate Partner Violence, IPV, which results from NPD in partners, can be disastrous for families.

Preventing Domestic Homicides: Lessons Learned from Tragedies focuses on the diverse nature of domestic homicides and what has been learned about the most effective prevention strategies from domestic violence death review committees in Canada, the US, the UK, NZ, and AU. Each chapter focuses on different populations—specifically older women, youth dating relationships, indigenous women, immigrant and refugee populations, rural/remote communities, same-sex relationships, and homicides with police and military.

Fearing for his life and concerned about being framed for a crime by his partner, Victor leaves an abusive relationship. With help from Caitlin's Escape Route, he returns home to Florida. During a conversation with his father, he reveals that after he came out as gay, eight years earlier, his mother told him he had been adopted. That was just before she walked out on them. Victor admits that he felt responsible for the pain this caused his father. He returns to work as a chef in his father’s restaurant. At the same time, he joins the Big Brother program, believing mentoring troubled ...

Jilly Mellington and her family move back to her childhood home of High Bluffs, Maine. She longs for the relaxed, small-town life she remembered as a child, before the darkness changed their lives forever. Scarlet moves into town, too. She resents the death of her father. Moving to High Bluffs will give her the opportunity to settle old debts that lingered for years. Someone else is in town. Someone who travels under the cloak of darkness, hiding in the shadows, watching everything. Some things never change. Will this observer unlock answers for the family? Will there finally be closure to ...

One Woman's Abusive Relationship with God

ABOUT THE BOOK SHEILA’S MEN is a dark modern fairy tale that follows the life of Sheila, a naïve romantic living in poverty who blindly marries a man in the hopes of providing a better life for herself and her daughter. Soon after marrying, her husband increasingly subjects her to emotional, physical, and sexual abuse. And since he refuses to get a job, Sheila begins working long hours far from home and encounters a seemingly endless onslaught from other manipulative and abusive men. Growing increasingly overworked, distanced from her beloved daughter, and frustrated with the ...

La Gitanilla trata sobre el amor de una gitana llamada Preciosa y un hombre noble llamdao Juan del Cárcamo, quien para probar su amor por ella se hace gitano. La aventunra de este jóven se complica cuando tras una serie de acontecimientos es acusado de un crimen a causa de una mujer que se enamora de él. Quien le pone una trampa para que no se aleje de ella. Por ser acusado injustamente de ladrón gitano, Juán del Cárcamo es llevado a la cárcel y condenado a muerte.

At the young age of three, while I was at school, my mother was murdered by her abusive new boyfriend. What would happen to her five unintentionally abandoned children? The heartbreak of the devastating loss of my mother was just the beginning of a series of tragic events that shaped my childhood. Lost in the chaos of abuse, I was the unseen collateral damage of domestic violence. I was forced to take on the role of the invisible child for self-preservation. I figured you can't hurt what you can't see.

Since it is a disorder and NPD is not normal, you may wonder why it exists in the first place. There is no exact cause for NPD that has been determined yet. There are various factors that contribute to it and may lead to the development of this disorder in any individual. It can be genetic or develop due to various experiences the individual has gone through. Psychological factors contribute to it in a major way. The causes of NPD are a complex matter, just like the causes of any other mental health disorders.

For Lizzie Riley, switching her six-year-old son, Tom, to the local academy school marks a fresh start, post divorce. With its excellent reputation and delightful red-brick building, Lizzie knows it'll be a safe space away from home. But there's something strange happening at school. Parents are forbidden from entering the grounds, and inside there are bars across the classroom windows....

When her entire world unravels, the journey to reclaim herself begins. In The Me I Left Behind, Book 4 in the emotional and uplifting Tuckaway Bay series, Maggie Oliver takes center stage. On the outside, Maggie has it all—three beautiful children, a stunning home, and financial security. But behind closed doors, her marriage to the charming but controlling Max has become a prison. What began as a calculated agreement has turned into something much darker. When a shocking discovery shatters the fragile illusion of her life, and a tragic event upends everything she thought she knew, Maggie...

In Destined to Death, Chosen to Live, Miranda Wheeler shares her gripping, true story of survival, betrayal, and divine protection. What began as a hopeful second chance at love spiraled into a nightmare of financial abuse, addiction, narcissistic manipulation, and an unthinkable murder plot—one involving a hidden life insurance policy taken out on her without consent.

All the information you need to know about narcissistic abuse, gaslighting, and codependency, as well as how to recover from each, is contained in these three volumes (workbooks and guides). Leave behind the deception and manipulation that has held you captive.

Caroline Corbett wants nothing to do with her father, Hoff, a man who abandoned her as a young girl and then vanished from her life almost thirty years ago. But when her beloved aunt expresses a dying wish to see him once more, Caroline, despite her failing marriage and other personal troubles, drops everything to look for him.

When Diane, a psychologist, falls in love with Charles, a charming and brilliant psychiatrist, there is laughter and flowers?and also darkness. After moving through infertility treatments and the trials of the adoption process as a united front, the couple is ultimately successful in creating a family. As time goes on, however, Charles becomes increasingly critical and controlling, and Diane begins to feel barraged and battered. When she is diagnosed with aggressive breast cancer, Charles is initially there for her, but his attentiveness quickly vanishes and is replaced by withdrawal, anger, and unfathomable sadism.

In Jake, Marisa has found everything she’s ever wanted. Then their new lodger, Kate, arrives. Something about Kate isn’t right. Is it the way she looks at Marisa’s boyfriend? Sits too close on the sofa? Constantly asks about the baby they are trying for? Or is it all just in Marisa’s head? After all, that’s what her Jake keeps telling her, and she trusts him - doesn’t she? But Marisa knows something is wrong. That the woman sleeping in their house will stop at nothing to get what she wants. Marisa just doesn’t know why.