I’m not talking science fiction here when I tell you there’s another life you could be living—right now, today, tomorrow and for the rest of your life. I’m talking about the one you create by making healthy large and small decisions every minute of every day. Mary Louise, in her sixties, is married to a man who’s been abusive since their early days together. She had a traumatic childhood in which she was neglected and abused and chose the same kind of relationship in each of her three marriages. Aside from her choice in men, she’s a wonderful, smart, kind, caring, curious, funny, lovely woman. But every day she rises and takes care of her misery of an ungrateful, mean husband. This need not be the case. She could leave him. Money would be tight, but it’s tight now. On her own, she’d be free at last to take care of...
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