Dragonslippers: This is what an Abusive Relationship Looks LikeRosalind B. Penfold is an appealing, successful thirty-five-year-old businesswoman running her own company when her parents, worried that she works too hard, invite her to a country picnic-party one weekend. There she meets widower Brian and is swept off her feet. Romantic and exuberant, with four loving children, Brian seems like everything a woman could possibly want, and Roz falls deeply in love. But soon Roz begins to notice troubling signs that Brian is not what he seems. A pattern of lies and petty cruelties begins to emerge that, over the course of their decade together, comes to encompass a litany of physical, mental, and sexual abuse appalling in its scope and malevolence. Often too traumatized and ashamed to admit the true extent of what she is experiencing, Roz instead pours her anguish into a series of graphic diaries that provide a touching, profoundly shocking, and completely original portrait of domestic abuse. An extraordinary visual testimony, Dragonslippers presents the many warning signs of abuse and offers a frank examination of the psychology of both abusers and victims. Above all, this is the story of a woman who fights for and finds the strength to break free. |
Contents
Getting In The Honeymoon | 11 |
Getting Lost Jekyll Hyde | 67 |
Getting Hurt Holding On | 111 |
Getting Out Letting Go | 169 |
Coming Home Finding Myself | 221 |
5 YEARS LATER | 253 |
Acknowledgments | 256 |
Other editions - View all
Dragonslippers: This Is What an Abusive Relationship Looks Like Rosalind B. Penfold Limited preview - 2007 |
Dragonslippers: This is what an Abusive Relationship Looks Like Rosalind B. Penfold No preview available - 2005 |
Dragonslippers: This is what an Abusive Relationship Looks Like Rosalind B. Penfold No preview available - 2006 |
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