Women with Controlling Partners: Taking Back Your Life from a Manipulative or Abusive Partner
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About this book
A controlling or abusive partner can break even the strongest personunless you know what to look for. Written by an expert in intimate partner abuse and based on her highly successful recovery program for women with controlling partners this book will give you the strength courage and strategies you need to acknowledge the problem and stand up for yourself once and for allwhether you stay or leave the relationship. If you have a controlling partner you arent alone. Millions of women suffer psychological abuse at the hands of a spouse or intimate partner during some point in their lives not fully seeing or knowing what is happening to them. Research shows that psychological abuse affects womens overall well-being more than physical abuse is a bigger contributor to inducing fear and can be a precursor to violence. To make matters worse having a controlling partner often results in hidden injuries like anxiety depression low self-esteem trauma and low self-efficacyfeeling like you cant make a difference in your life. So where can you turn for help? Based on over a decade of clinical and domestic abuse research Women with Controlling Partners will help you identify the coercive constraints that can be predictive of intimate partner abuse recognize the harmful effects of psychological abuse on your mental and physical health and gain the personal strength and power to break free. Using the authors three-stage recovery model youll be empowered to move out of denial deconstruct what holds you psychologically captive and take back your life. Abuse can be devastating and having a controlling partner can make you feel crazyand as if youre the one responsible. But youre not crazy and youre not to blame! With this important one-of-a-kind recovery process youll finally find the clarity of mind courage and strength to protect yourself from the hurtful control that damages your mental and physical health and move toward a safer and happier life.
