Staying for your children is noble. However, staying with someone that teaches your children that "selective" evilness is okay is mental illness.
There is nothing spiritual about a marriage that uses guilt, blame, shame or religious manipulations to keep a relationship together.
(imp. & p. p.) of Manipulate
At the end, a journey based on my imagination will leave me imagining that I should have engaged the very thing I used my imagination to avoid.
so often victims end up unnecessarily prolonging their abuse because they buy into the notion that their abuser must be coming from a wounded place and that only patient love and tolerance (and lots o...