The Distance We Mistake for Healing Let me concede the ground where the critique is right, because everything after it depends on that concession. There are relationships a person should leave. Where there is violence, ongoing abuse, addiction that pulls everyone near it under, manipulation that rewrites your sense of…
Abuse by a Family Member: Why We Tolerate It, and How We Stop I’ve spent a lot of time listening to people describe being hurt by the people they’re supposed to be safest with. A mother whose adult son speaks to her with open contempt. A woman in her fifties…



