Honeymoon and Hell: A Memoir of Abuse

"Honeymoon and Hell: A Memoir of Abuse,” recounts the emotional experience of the author’s many years spent in an abusive relationship. It is meant to shine a bright light on the darkness of self-doubt and self-blame surrounding domestic violence.

It chronicles a journey of understanding how to regain your own emotional strength and independence, remove your participation as a willing victim – and reclaim your life.

The book offers insight as to why women stay and remain dedicated to an intimate partner that abuses them. It empowers women to remove their status as victim and reclaim their emotional independence.

"Honeymoon and Hell: A Memoir of Abuse" makes the uncomfortable topic of relationship abuse approachable and relatable. It succeeds in bringing the reader along on a journey of understanding how abuse is a slow and insidious process that escalates and results in an erosion process away from healthy and rightful expectation. Humor and warmth engage and embrace the reader as a friend and confidant. Understanding removes isolation. Hope replaces despair. The message becomes clear that the only real power you have is to change yourself. There are no victims only volunteers.

This is a work expressly dedicated to every woman bravely willing to take the first tentative step to break the cycle of abuse.