How to Find the Strength to Leave a Bad Relationship – Gloria Steinem

It’s surprisingly difficult to leave an unhealthy, distant, or just plain bad relationship! You’d think it’d be simple – if you don’t like the way your boyfriend or husband treats you, then leave – but it’s actually quite complicated. Here are some suggestions for leaving bad relationships, motivated by a woman’s question on my article [...]

5 Stages of Leaving an Abusive Relationship – Tina Turner

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 . [...]

How Do You Leave a Mentally Abusive Relationship? – Elizabeth Gilbert

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 [...]