For Worse Never Better: Diary of An Abused Wife and Escape to Freedom

In 1967, I changed the name of the groom months before the wedding. I had met my prince, my hero. We were the perfect couple, well educated, from good families. We were a witty, intelligent team and the love we shared for each other knew no bounds. But there were demons in his past that could destroy us both and almost did. I was an abused woman for almost eighteen years. During that marriage I kept a diary so I could begin to understand what I was living, and more important, why. This book has been written from the pages of that diary and chronicles the marriage from perfect couple through the torment and humiliation of physical and emotional abuse to the psychological growth that ultimately led my children and I to freedom. So you don't think I am not some fly-by-night person eager to harvest some gripes of wrath, I believe this book can afford abused women insight into their own domestic holocausts and provide a mirror of hope, understanding and strength. For the millions of women seeking escape, For Worse could become their emotional handgun to freedom. He is now deceased. I am alive. I always thought it would be the other way around.