Comments on: Finding the Courage to Write About My Abusive Marriages https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/ Sun, 20 May 2018 15:17:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 By: Karen Elizabeth Lee https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-49301 Sun, 20 May 2018 15:17:57 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-49301 In reply to Carol Schoenig.

I encourage you to write about all the pain in your life – even if you never publish. Writing is hard, but also so healing and you can get so many insights from your own writing. I am amazed and gratified by the insights from the writers in my memoir class and their bravery to face things that they never even realised before.

I absolutely encourage you to persist in your writing and perhaps find a group of like-minded writers to share with.

]]> By: Carol Schoenig https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-49300 Sun, 20 May 2018 00:24:15 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-49300 Karen,

You are indeed brave and courageous. I’m a writer. I quit writing in my twenties because my husband would read it and accuse me of all kind of things. I’ve wanted to write about this subject and it is hard. I commend you.
Congratulations!

]]> By: Karen Lee https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-47591 Tue, 17 May 2016 13:56:42 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-47591 Yes, the tragedy is that after a while the abused woman doesn’t need her partner there any more to criticize and blame her – she uses his words to blame herself – it is a form of brainwashing that can take years to get rid of. Leaving the relationship is only the first step – healing from it is essential. Thank you for your comments.

]]> By: Karen Lee https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-47590 Tue, 17 May 2016 13:54:16 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-47590 In reply to Linda Sienkiewicz.

Thank you so much for your comment on my essay – I decided to publish to bring this whole issue out of the darkness where it continues and into the light of day. Your metaphor of living under a rock is so right! Everyone has the right to live her own life in peace and we as a society have to do more to ensure that happens.

]]> By: Linda Sienkiewicz https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-47589 Tue, 17 May 2016 13:50:27 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-47589 I’m glad you found the courage to write your memoir. Stories such as yours need to be shared so that women in similar situations know they aren’t alone, and also for others to have a better understanding of what it’s like to live under a rock. Thank you.

]]> By: Criss Roberts https://booksbywomen.org/finding-the-courage-to-write-about-my-abusive-marriages/#comment-47513 Thu, 28 Apr 2016 01:27:34 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=15357#comment-47513 So brave of you to go there. Emotional abuse is painful on so many levels, so often leaving the abused disoriented in a world that she blames herself for creating. Sometimes it seems like climbing Everest would have been the easier task.

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