by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen
The life lesson: leaving an abusive relationship involves five stages of separation. The successful woman: Tina Turner – one of the greatest singers of all time – who was in an abusive marriage for 16 years.
“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself,” says Tina Turner. “If you are unhappy with anything . [...]
by Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen
The life lesson: though it seems like it should be easy to leave a relationship that involves spousal abuse, mental abuse, or verbal abuse…it’s not. The successful woman, who’s “been there, done that”: Elizabeth Gilbert.
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men,” writes Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for [...]