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A quick easy guide to help you identify unhealthy patterns in your relationships by looking at:
• Similar relationship patterns at work, home, and in the family.
• How much freedom and autonomy you have within the context of a relationship.
• How you are spoken to.
• The language of abuse.
• Phrases or insults that replay in your head.
This book is for everyone because abusive relationships exist everywhere. Whether at work or at home, whether...
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The book is memoir of a domestic abuse survivor as told through her diary and life experiences. Part one shows what domestic abuse looks like and what it feels like. Part two covers the "hooks" that hold women in an abusive home and describes healing techniques. The third part centers on how to keep women and their children safe after they have escaped. In the forth part o the book the author shares the poem that grew out of her diary and life experiences....
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Do you wonder if you are being abused or if someone you know is being abused?
Do you want to heal from abuse and learn how to live an abuse-free peaceful life?
Overcoming Abuse: Embracing Peace Volume III is an encyclopedic handbook that answers questions on the problem-abuse trauma. No truth is left untold. Detailed Clinical Faith-based treatment strategies are provided. The path is enlightened as the victim takes possession of her life! Triumphant...
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These shocking statistics call to our attention the importance of financial independence among women. Financial dependence, though, is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Dependence can also be noted in Validation and Self Esteem; Mobility and Daily Care; and Emotional Support and A Shield from the World. Loving, caring, and well meaning spouses, families, and caregivers can unwittingly gnaw away at self confidence and self esteem until a person...
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Do you wonder if you are being abused or if someone you know is being abused?
Do you want to heal from abuse and learn how to live an abuse-free peaceful life?
Overcoming Abuse: Embracing Peace Volume I is an encyclopedic handbook that answers questions on the problem-abuse trauma. No truth is left untold. Detailed Clinical Faith-based treatment strategies are provided. The path is enlightened as the victim takes possession of her life! Triumphant...
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Through all the pain of every monster that came through her life, this book is about a sister who tried to protect her brothers and herself from the constant devastating abuse and a mother who didn't know how to love. Losing hope in herself and knowing they would never be rescued finally made her indestructible. Never giving up, working hard, and praying every day finally brought greatness into their lives. This book will show you that it doesn't...
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When you say the words 'domestic abuse', the first image that comes to mind for most is male violence towards women. Despite what some may believe, the very real truth is that domestic abuse is not a gendered crime, with men making up an estimated third of all victims. Break the Silence — A Support Guide For Male Victims Of Domestic Abuse explores the world of the male victim in an attempt to break the social stereotypes and gendered beliefs when...
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· Here's what you'll find inside Are You a Victim of Insane Relationships?
Why newly found seemingly ideal relationships often quickly fall apart
Why those who look for love are those least likely to find it
Why you can intensely hate your partner but not be able to break up the relationship
How your partner can psychologically change your behavior-without you ever knowing it
How your partner can destroy your identity and ruin...
10) Tears in a Jar
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This is a story about loss and restoration. Instead of a tale of woe and loneliness, it is a tale of freedom, redemption, and rebuilding. During a very painful divorce, I lost everything and everyone I knew. My ex-husband aided by our church, my family of origin, and many of our friends, built a wall around my children and refused to give me meaningful access to them.Throughout these challenging and painful events, I continued to keep the faith that...
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In "Breaking Free: Overcoming Control in Relationships," embark on a transformative journey towards reclaiming your autonomy and rediscovering your sense of self-worth. Delving deep into the intricacies of manipulative dynamics, this comprehensive guide offers invaluable insights and practical strategies for recognizing, addressing, and ultimately breaking free from controlling relationships. Through a series of ten empowering chapters, readers are...
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Clarkson Graham met and fell in love with Olga, the woman of his dreams. Their courtship, engagement, and eventual marriage followed. As their relationship progressed, Olga's behavior became progressively more volatile and abusive. All along, Clarkson lived in the hope that he could "fix" her problems and live up to her perplexing expectations, until one appalling event drove him to his breaking point. Following therapy for post-traumatic stress disorder,...
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This is my diary from 2014-2015. It details the beginning of an abusive cycle that would last for six years before I broke that cycle. This book may be, used as a guide, but it is my healing journey. It was therapeutic to write. It's important to feel your feelings, and to be honest with yourself. This book is all about my feelings. I was able to reflect on some things that have happened and the signs I missed. It's important to know the signs of...
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Fifty Shades of Grace provides a scriptural look at what the Bible says about relationships. Too often in the education of relationships, abusive and unhealthy relationships if discussed are not done so with enough depth. This book will compare what society tells us, in the form of entertainment and media, with what God tells us in the Bible about what healthy and loving relationships are. It will explore what abuse is and why many of us are in abusive...
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This book covers
-Learn the secrets of great dating relationships
-Avoid stress, pain, and regrets from bad dating decisions
-Get dating & relationship advice that creates happiness
-Set meaningful relationship goals for dating
-Develop new dating habits that will ensure your success
Have you been suffering from relational pain, regrets, confusion, disappointment, or maybe even abuse? I know what it feels like, trust me, and I want to save you some...
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Rosie is a woman happy in her own skin: good job, great friends, enjoyable lifestyle filled with sports, dance, music. She's even managed to buy her own home before turning thirty, an uncommon feat for single women in the 1970's. In short, Rosie's a pretty good package. She meets Carl, whose charms, wit and dynamism appear the perfect wrapping, the crowning touch to the life that she's built so far. Within months of their wedding, Rosie realizes she's...
17) Love Illusions
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When a marriage crumbles, Jasmine, a hardworking mother of three, finds herself intrigued by a new relationship. Dirk seemed different than other men she had met. The relationship was budding quickly. Could she finally find happiness that she had so desperately longed for? He was a former marine sniper, financially stable, generous, and kind. Everyone liked him, especially Jasmine's mother.
That was the illusion!
Jasmine discovers Dirk's secrets,...
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Life doesn't have to be like this! Are you getting pushed around? Do you feel you need to do everything asked of you by your partner or anyone else? Do you feel you have to fulfill all your partner's needs no matter what? Are you frightened of being unable to survive without your partner? Are you picked on and undermined if you question your partner on any issue? Is your self-esteem low? Have you lost your confidence? Do you remember a time when you...
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Tyria D. Jones has been happily married for 4 ½ years to the love of her life. She is the mother of 4 beautiful young ladies and 3 handsome young men. She also has 3 adorable grandbabies. Her life is filled with overflowing joy, but it hasn't always been so happy or easy. She struggled for most of her life trying to find out who God created her to be. What was her purpose in life? What made her special in God's eyes? It wasn't until she started looking...
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In the end, if there is an end to such wrong, Mrs. Primm, bedridden for six-years, passed away peacefully. Ironically, she passed just one year before her boss, Mr. Dynamic. Old Kernal lived on another two years. He married again and moved to Mexico.
The angel survived another two-years before passing. She is very, much missed but will surely be up in heaven next door to doggie heaven with her loyal companion, Sam.
Mrs. Proper and Cowboy live on...
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