[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.

[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.

If there is one thing the psychic taught me, it's that people and events are rarely who and what we think they are. They are more meaningful, more worth our attention-part of some finely choreographed, eternal dance that we would be wise to bow down before in gratitude and humility

It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.

Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships - in other words, in families - the last place we would want or expect to find violence.

Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.