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JUST BROWSING THE INTERNET AND FOUND A FEW TERRIFIC QUOTES
“Where there is love there is life.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
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“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ~ Lao Tzu
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“A great marriage is not when the ‘perfect couple’ comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences.” ~ Dave Meurer
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“I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson
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“Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.” ~ Zig Ziglar
AN ACT OF DOMESTIC ABUSE OCCURS EVERY 12 SECONDS IN THE U.S.
It wasn’t my intention to present a classic case of Domestic Abuse when I wrote Karma Visited, but Annie Furman is in a BAD marriage where her husband keeps her from friends and family, monitors her moves, doles out only enough money to purchase groceries, berates her verbally, and forces servitude on her.
Annie Furman is a classic case of an abused wife
from the SUNY Downstate Medical Center:
Domestic abuse, or “battering”, is a pattern of abuse by one partner against the other, for the purpose of maintaining power and control…
Psychological battering: The abuser’s psychological or mental abuse can include constant verbal abuse, harassment, excessive possessiveness, fault-finding, isolating the woman from friends and family, deprivation of physical and economic resources, and destruction of personal property.