Partner Development

In January of 1995, 17-year-old Lizzette Martinez met Grammy-winning musician and record producer R. Kelly at Aventura Mall in Florida where he was performing. At first, it seemed that her hopes of becoming a professional singer were about to come true when he offered to help boost her career. However, this mentorship quickly turned into sexual grooming, leading to years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse.

Stephen Betchen, a therapist in private practice who teaches couples therapy in the clinical doctoral program of the University of Pennsylvania and who writes regularly for the "Can This Marriage Be Saved?" column of the Ladies' Home Journal, has pioneered the remarkably effective "master conflict" method of saving relationships.

Sex Offenses: Navigating Life After the Fall is an inside look at sex offenses and the men of commit them. It’s based on the author’s experience as a sex offender treatment provider.

Hundreds of thousands of fans flock to the PTWM blog and Facebook page purely because Rachaele is genuine and incredibly honest and has created a supportive online community where parents (and non-parents) can go for respite. Her message is clear: not everyone is a perfect mum with a nice house, a steady marriage and 2.5 children. We lead messy, complicated lives. For Rachaele, blogging is about shining a light on very real ups and downs (from having fun with your beautiful kids and watching them grow to meltdowns, domestic violence, bullying and more).

As a college administrator, Gwen Plano lived her professional life in a highly visible and accountable space - but as wife and mother, after hours and behind closed doors, she experienced the terror of domestic violence. It was her secret; it was her shame. But when her husband turned his brutality on her son, she could no longer stay quiet.

If you've ever wondered why you hold on to toxic relationships that aren’t good for you or why you make excuses for other’s bad behavior, then this guide will help you understand, recognize, and avoid the behavior altogether. At some point, what you’ve always done, won’t work and you know it. Now you’re ready to confront the issues that have plagued you and fed into your adult relationships. Recovering from codependency may feel like a daunting task, but it doesn’t have to be.

In this breakthrough guide, Dr. Ramona interweaves her personal story with a proven, step-by-step process to healing from the trauma of domestic abuse. It is hard to imagine someone with a Doctorate in Psychology, a flourishing counseling practice, experience in both TV and radio, to have hidden in a different state with her children, worn sunglasses on a rainy day to hide her blackeye, and often used turtlenecks to cover choke marks. Most people would not believe this could be the same person. Dr. Ramona is that person.

Everyone has the right to choose, but no one gets to choose the consequences. Sometimes we are unfairly forced to live with the consequences of another person’s actions when facing abuse and domestic violence. Further complications come when the abuser is someone we love. Fortunately, hope and choices are always present for those who look for them.

Kristopher was the type of man any woman hoped to fall in love with. Intelligent, charming, and worldly—everyone loved him. Yet, his definition of love was a far cry from the idealistic vision he painted. Behind closed doors, his behavior was erratic—from loving and kind to distant and cruel. Repeatedly, I ignored the voice in my head that told me to walk away now. Tangled in the web he systematically spun, I questioned everything I thought and did; I no longer knew who I was or what I was capable of.

Have you been dumped recently? Trying hard to forget your ex, but you feel like you two belong together? Relationship expert and rising author Mark Cosmo has something you need in a situation like this. "How to get your ex back" is your guide to getting your game back. Getting over a long term relationship is never easy, and it gets even harder when you are still in love with your ex. Whatever the reason may have been for the breakup, there's always room for reconciliation if the two people still love each other.

Dir gehen schmusende Pärchen auf die Nerven, weil Du ungewollt Single bist? Du wünschst Dir schon lange eine glückliche, erfüllende Beziehung? Du bist in Deiner aktuellen Beziehung unglücklich? Selbsthypnose kann Dir dabei helfen, Dich endlich (wieder) zu verlieben und Deinen Traumpartner zu finden. Oft sind es unbewusste Schranken im Kopf, die uns vom Liebes-Erfolg abhalten. In vielen Fällen liegen die Gründe dafür in uns selber - ohne, dass wir das überhaupt realisieren.

Learn techniques, tools, and insight into your relationships that you won't find in any other book. There are reasons that narcissists love and lock onto empaths, givers, and lovers. As the counterpart, we have insecurities, matching traumas, imbalances, and inner wounds that must heal. Merely explaining the psychology around toxic and narcissistic personalities does not address our core issues, so we continue to repeat patterns with them.

Domestic Abuse - Parent Abuse, Children’s Story, Those Left Behind, Our Stories & More of Our Stories Bundle. These are stories about the friends and families who have lost loved ones. Some have been forced to leave their abuser by going into hiding. Others haven't been as lucky. These people that are left behind tell their heartbreaking stories of their losses and grief.

Das Zerbrechen einer Partnerschaft hat oftmals eine lange Vorgeschichte. Dieses Hörbuch handelt von dem langen Abschied, währenddessen die Aufbrechenden jahrelang innere Qualen litten und wo die Entscheidung zu gehen über einen langen Zeitraum immer stärkere Konturen annahm. In diesem Hörbuch erzählen die Aufbrechenden mit ihren eigenen Worten, warum sie gegangen sind. Paare gehen nicht wegen Streitigkeiten oder unterschiedlichen Persönlichkeiten auseinander; sie gehen, weil sie sich einsam, abgewiesen und in der Paarbeziehung verlassen fühlen. Sie gehen, um ihr sterbendes Ich zu retten.

The tale of Mary Hope MacLaren is a story of hope. It is the story of a young woman's hopes and dreams, shattered, as her new husband turns violent. It is the story of hope enduring over the years, but of hope renewed at his untimely death. Most of all, it is the tale of a woman's fight back to who she had been before and of her renewed hope for the life she once wanted, dreamt of having.

Nos premières amours ont un impact important sur le reste de notre vie. Elles influencent notre estime de soi, la qualité de nos contacts avec les autres, notre performance au travail et notre capacité à profiter de la vie. Il importe donc de partir du bon pied. Malheureusement, à l'adolescence, on craint parfois de s'ouvrir à ses parents et on finit par s'imaginer, à tort, que certaines formes d'abus sont normales dans un couple. Grâce à ce livre, vous pouvez dès maintenant faire le point sur votre relation amoureuse actuelle.

Sedan år 2005 kan Brottsförebyggande rådet inte se några som helst positiva tendenser när det gäller våld i nära relation. Trots stora satsningar har de många årens arbete inte gett några tydliga resultat. Tvärtom finns studier som visar på ett ökat våld mot kvinnor. Om vi inte lyckas vända den negativa trenden kan våldet i nära relation bli ett av vår tids största politiska misslyckanden. De uteblivna resultaten borde resultera i politisk självkritik och eftertanke. Vad har gått fel, vad kunde gjorts annorlunda och vad har missats i arbetet? För att komma vidare finns två vägar.

Kitty O’Brien suffered domestic abuse and coercive control at the hands of her former partner, and in this book, she describes the strategies and techniques she used to escape the relationship, heal from trauma and move on.

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This is my personal story of my long romantic relationship with a Narcissist. The narcissistic abuse I suffered: Gaslighting, denial, raging, being used, and the long road I travelled to heal from the abuse.