Abuse is rarely a simple story of cruelty. Often it is also a story of profound deficits — emotional, relational, and moral — that victims are unwittingly recruited to compensate for. When people think about incompetence, they tend to picture...
When someone you love is living with domestic violence, knowing how to respond can feel impossible. Fear, anger, confusion, helplessness, all of it can hit at once. You might want to rush in and fix everything, or you might hold back because you’re...