Lea Love

He didn’t believe me. I’d called him scared and crying. I’d told him that I had broken up with my X. That it wasn’t working out (a major understatement). He was sympathetic at first and told me that relationships were

The back story. (Inhale) As a young Canadian woman I fell in love with an older hippie man in Hawaii got pregnant had a baby and he became very abusive and my child and I left then through keen manipulation

Every time my daughter flies back to visit her father, there’s a moment where I worry that he’ll hurt her. It’s not a deafening worry, but more of the insidious type. It pops up when she mentions the visit, and

I won’t speak for all women. But I can speak from my personal experience. From the ages of twenty-two to twenty-five years old, I was in an abusive relationship. This is the average age range for females to experience intimate

No one wants to end up at a shelter. But we’re grateful that they’re around. Women’s domestic violence shelters are chronically underfunded. The support workers are over-worked and under-payed. They’re constantly trying to fill positions and find volunteers because people

It was a challenge to escape my abusive X in Hawaii. I was on an island in the Pacific Ocean, 2700 miles away from home. And my X’s favorite hobby was me. He thrived on manipulation and control. But I

There was shouting and berating and an onslaught of verbal abuse. Then my child and I were thrown out of our home. We lived in Hawaii in a remote jungle area a mile and a half up a four-wheel drive