During a book signing, this woman approaches me and goes on and on about her abusive husband, who she divorced. After she had talked for a long time, I asked her how long it had been and she said 16 years!!!! I lost all sympathy for her at that moment. Get over it! Even her grown children had abandoned her due to the bitterness and anger.

Another woman who was 70 years old and absolutely beautiful, told me she had recently left her very abusive husband after years of abuse and when he karate chopped her in the back of her neck and hurt her so badly, she was hospitalized. It was only then that she told her grown son what was going on and he immediately moved her out of the house and set her up in a nice apartment. She was shaking as she spoke with me. So many years wasted but she finally did the right thing.