The Man Who Went to the Ends of the Earth To Help His Child Abuse Survivor Wife Heal
By Preston McMurry as told to Virginia Pickles The stereotyped endings of some old movies picture the hero and heroine walking off hand in hand into the sunset. But there are other love stories, ones people normally keep to themselves, sad but sweet ones about the love between abuse survivors and their confused but supportive spouses. In the end the hero and the heroine may smile and wave at each other, but they walk off into the sunset on separate paths. Survivors struggle. They cannot trust, and even if they know they can, the legacy of not being able to trust is so hard wired into their brains, they cannot make the leap into trusting. Or they trust too easily because being used by others is also so hard wired into their brains, they are unable to do anything else. Survivors also often struggle with addiction to drugs and alcohol, depression, anxiety, discomfort with touch, addiction to sex or dislike of sex, inability to sleep and mo...