“Every one of us is vulnerable to the right con.”
So concludes Liz Scheier in her New York Times article “The Victims of Scammers Aren’t Stupid. They’re Human,” published on March 27, 2022.
Read MoreFor some women it happens early on after D-day. For others it’s a cumulative gathering of information that reaches critical mass. However we get there, we have reached a crossroads. What do you do when you realize you don’t know him at all?
In the next few blogs we will build on the one I posted before this one. We will talk about the role of humiliation in preserving his secret life, building it up, and in our experiences of the “treatment” models that want our money and participation.
Read MoreMy dear friend, Elizabeth, who has walked our path sent me the following link, suggesting “there’s a blog in there somewhere”: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/10/put-on-the-diamonds-notes-on-humiliation-vivian-gornick/
Don’t forget to click on the rest of the blog!!!
Read MoreIf we tell the truth we discover about the man we married/partnered with—how he treated us with or without our knowledge and the abusive and destructive impact of it all upon our lives—we might be surprised to find ourselves accused of being vengeful or spiteful.
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