GET OUT NOW by Robert Davidson Author of THE BEAST I LOVED: A Battered Woman’s Desperate Struggle to Survive As I’ve written in past blogs, abusers are liars (read Don’t Believe the Con Man on my Amazon author page). And in my other blog on that page, Why Didn’t She Just Leave? I explain that most women who stay in abusive relationships are so lacking in self-esteem and feelings of adequacy that they CAN’T leave no matter how rational such a decision seems. They make the mistake of believing their con man (because they have so much NEED to), and have no ability to leave the relationship e ..read more

DON’T BELIEVE THE CON MAN by Robert Davidson, Author of THE BEAST I LOVED: A Battered Woman's Desperate Struggle to Survive Domestic violence is all about power and the need to control, which comes from the monumental insecurity virtually all batterers suffer from. Like little children, they have a constant, nagging, inescapable fear of abandonment that they never outgrew like normal children do, and so carry around their warped perception of a fearful world that leads so reliably—and unfairly—to the abuse of their partners. Because most batterers have experienced chronic violence in their o ..read more

WHY DIDN’T SHE JUST LEAVE? By Robert Davidson, author of THE BEAST I LOVED: A Battered Woman's Desperate Struggle to Survive There are many issues regarding domestic violence, but the one that, to me, is most infuriating, most unfair, and most misunderstood is the most commonly asked question of all: “Why didn’t she just leave?” But that should not be the question. The question should be, “Why do men batter women?” And as a society, “How do we stop it?” That’s what we should be asking. Why don’t they leave? There are many issues involved, and very complicated ones involving children, jobs ..read more