By Leslie Morgan Steiner
At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner appeared to have all of it: a Harvard degree, a glamorous task at Seventeen magazine, a downtown manhattan urban residence. Plus a good-looking, humorous, street-smart boyfriend who cherished her. yet in the back of her façade of good fortune, this golden woman concealed a depressing mystery. She'd made a mistake shared by means of hundreds of thousands: she fell in love with the inaccurate person.
At first Leslie and Conor appeared as ideal jointly as their fairy-tale marriage ceremony. Then got here the fights she attempted to disregard: he driven her down the steps of the home they acquired jointly, poured espresso grinds over her hair as she dressed for a serious task interview, choked her in the course of a controversy, and threatened her with a gun. a number of instances, he got here with regards to making solid on his risk to kill her. With each one assault, Leslie misplaced one other piece of herself.
Gripping and totally compelling, Crazy Love takes you contained in the violent, devastating international of abusive love. Conor acknowledged he’d been abused due to the fact he used to be a tender boy, and love and rage danced in detail jointly in his psyche. Why didn’t Leslie go away? She stayed simply because she enjoyed him. discover for your self if she had fallen really in love – or right into a mental catch. Crazy Love will draw you in -- and not allow cross.
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How did your body feel? No doubt your muscles were tight; your whole body felt tense. Your heart was beating fast. Now think a little further back, and recall the moment when you could have chosen to leave before you became abusive. How angry were you then? What was your anger temperature at that moment? This is your exit point. Put your exit point temperature on the thermometer and circle it. Most men say that their exit point falls somewhere between 50 and 70 degrees. They find that below 50 they can manage their feelings and that above 70 it’s probably too late.
You want her to tell you she’s glad to see you. ” “You make me sound like a kid…” His voice trails off, and I can tell he knows what I’m talking about. Paul’s mother was an alcoholic. She started drinking at ten in the morning, and by the time he got home from school, she was often passed out on the couch, an empty fifth of gin on the coffee table. Paul would turn off the TV, go into the kitchen, pour himself a glass of milk, and eat a handful of cookies. Often that was dinner. Paul and I had talked about his feelings of abandonment, and about how he brought those feelings into his relationship.
We recognize that wives and girlfriends can hurt men. But our goal is to help you take the first steps toward stopping your abusive behavior and creating a loving and healthy relationship. This book is designed especially to help men like you avoid abusing their intimate partners. You are not alone. Three requests. First, throughout this book you will find exercises and questions to help you examine your behavior. Invest in yourself: take the time to respond carefully. You will learn important things about yourself.