This Mother’s Day, I present an excerpt and survival guide from the forthcoming memoir Escape From Perdition.
Part survivor testimony, part legal and financial blueprint, part political warning. Entirely true.
Forward this to every woman confronting coercion disguised as devotion, dependency disguised as security, or intimidation disguised as care.
Abuse rarely announces itself immediately. Abuse advances through erosion, autonomy narrowed gradually enough to make confinement appear ordinary.
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Wendy A. Lawrence Founder and Editor, wendy664.substack.com
Munch painted the psychological aftermath of intimacy corrupted into possession, long before modern language existed for coercive control or domestic violence. The woman stands inside the stunned recognition survivors know intimately: the realization that the person once trusted most has become the source of fear, disorientation, and entrapment.
Art Credit: Ashes by Edvard Munch, 1894.
