I stayed for 31 years. It wasn't until I found the (answer) book that saved my life and explained what I was experiencing.....verbal abuse: The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans; I bellieve this book should be required reading for everyone on the planet.

It has been 6 years since I got the divorce....it still affects me in a small way. I stayed because I had hope.....hope that he wuld eventually get it and change....fear of abandonment, but I didn't blame myself, because I educated myself; read everything I could on abuse, etc., etc...I knew that HE was the one with the problem.

Because of the divorce I was met with something I never heard of: Spiritual...abuse; y church of 31 years voted me out of membership, with my name up on a big screen, followed by the words:"Conduct Unbecoming a Child of God."

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www.ahurchabusepoetrytherapy.com was the result of this debacle. I've always been able to make someting positive from a llifetime of abuse...written my memoir: Ghost Child to Triumph and a poetry book: Sanctuary of the Soul.....won a scholarship and went back to school (age 63!), been on the radio speaking about verbal abuse and eventually plan to be on national tv, talking about the same; one of my passions is to get the message out there; I wrote a 25 page paper on verbal abuse.

I am extremely tenacious and will never give up trying to make a difference (I am the moderator of an abuses survivors' group).