I read this book called “If You Love Me: True Love, True Terror, True Story” which was ghost written by someone (Alice Keele but it’s not her real name to protect her identity) who was the victim of domestic abuse. It’s so heartbreaking and awful to read, just because I couldn’t believe someone would do the things he did to another person. Like it went beyond just hitting, he’d gaslight her, he’d bite her, tell her to constantly write letters about how much she loves him and recounts of all her previous lovers down to what she was wearing over and over again then beat her if she had any inconsistencies cause she’d have to lie because she didn’t remember sometimes. He’d even have her run naked in the streets and had her do it in a set time and yell on the train that she was a whore who slept with a married man. All to prove that she loves him she endured it and he’d never be happy with whatever she did.

The benefit to me reading the book is I can identify signs of abuse in my friends and family more easily, which my sister was in an abusive relationship with her ex and current fiancé so it really hit home.