Dangerous Relationships

This book is in very good condition but the top of the book is a bit dusty and a bunch of pages have been folded over. 

Most of us think that domestic violence only happens to other people. It's something "out there" that you hear about on the evening news - until it happens to you. Then it becomes something appalling, terrifying and undeniably personal.
 
Unfortunately, it can happen to you. The statistics are painful: an estimated 4 million cases of domestic violence incidents annually, or one assault every 15 seconds . Domestic violence, also unfortunately, is an equal opportunity horror. Domestic violence can happen to anyone at anytime. Domestic violence does not respect age, gender, or sexual preference. Parents have hit their children, children have beat up their parents, wives have knifed husbands, husbands have battered wives, brothers have hacked away at sisters, sisters have knifed brothers. Cousins, uncles, aunts, live-in mates, girlfriends, boyfriends, all have been party to or victim of domestic violence.
 
Domestic violence isn't just about physical battering. Some of the most long-lasting consequences of domestic violence come from emotional and psychological abuse. Once someone has been battered, emotionally and/or physically, healing is often slow and difficult, and recovery is not just "when the bruises fade."