\u201cMost helpful, strong stuff I have read in a long time. Very sobering.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you SO MUCH for posting this \u2026 funny stuff, but oh-so true! I\u2019ve only scanned over the article once, but I can already see there is SO MUCH GOOD STUFF that will help me and I think will also help my kids!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you so much. You deserve an award for posting this info! Great info indeed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of the most powerful bits of writing on abuse I\u2019ve read.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI sit here with my mouth wide open in amazement at the way John describes to a \u2018T\u2019 the reason why I cannot move \u201chim\u201d out of my life \u2026 I don\u2019t really know if I am glad that I have read this or if I am in shock \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI posted the link to this wonderful article on my Facebook page, and my son (20) sarcastically commented \u2026 \u201cI think you should listen to that dude, Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReally empowering. Life changing. Something I\u2019ll come back to again and again.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Since first posting \u201c7 Reasons,\u201d I would guess that I\u2019ve received one hundred letters from women telling me how profoundly and positively it affected them. Many of them told me they found in it the inspiration they needed to finally escape their abusive relationship.<\/p>\n
When \u201c7 Reasons\u201d was available on Scribd.com (for free, of course), it was downloaded and read 22,000 times. I\u2019ve heard from lots of doctors, counselors, and domestic violence centers who have incorporated \u201c7 Reasons\u201d into their processes and programs.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m pretty sure that nothing I ever write will do more people more good than that piece.<\/p>\n
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month.<\/strong> If you would, please<\/em> spread the link to this piece as far and wide as you possibly can. (Its shortlink is: http:\/\/wp.me\/P4O2q-1SN ). A lot<\/em> of women whose abusive husbands have cut them off from society search online for human connectedness and help. (The night before last I received an email from a woman who wrote to say that \u201c7 Reasons,\u201d plus the people she met through Facebook while her husband was at work, gave her the courage to carefully plan the escape of her and her three children from the abusive marriage that for ten years had been devastating their lives. This morning<\/em> that man woke up to find his dumb ass where it belongs: alone.)<\/p>\nPut the link to \u201c7 Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships<\/a>\u201d on your Facebook page. Put it on your blog. Share in on Twitter; StumbleUpon\/Reddit\/Digg it. But get it out there. You never know who might read it at a moment of their lives they need it most.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here on my blog I have a page called, \u201c7 Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships.\u201d Its text comprises a series of my posts\u2014there run together as one whole piece\u2014in which I delineate and explore those seven reasons. Yesterday I was pleased to learn that the entire \u201c7 Reasons\u201d essay was cut and pasted into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1528,"featured_media":10238,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2214,695,2215],"class_list":["post-10237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-relationships","tag-abusive-men","tag-domestic-violence","tag-dv-shelter"],"yoast_head":"\n
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<\/a>Here on my blog I have a page called, \u201c7 Reasons Women Stay in Abusive Relationships<\/a>.\u201d Its text comprises a series of my posts\u2014there run together as one whole piece\u2014in which I delineate and explore those seven reasons.<\/p>\n