Leslie Morgan Steiner
Leslie Morgan Steiner
Leslie Morgan Steiner is an American author, blogger and businesswoman...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 June 1965
CountryUnited States of America
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Working moms elevate themselves above stay-at-home moms, and stay-at-home moms try to put down working moms. It's a war in which both sides are trying to put the other one down.
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Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.
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My husband worked on Wall Street and was an Ivy League graduate as well. In our world, we were the last couple you'd imagine enmeshed in domestic violence.
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My mom is one of my role models in a complicated way. I learned from her how to be a good mom. She was one of those natural moms who really took to it. Her chosen profession was teaching. She loves kids. But she was extremely frustrated and unhappy because for much of my life she was a stay-at-home mom.
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The most important experience for learning to be a mother is your own mom's experience.
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The question, 'Why does she stay?' is code for some people for, 'It's her fault for staying,' as if [domestic violence] victims intentionally choose to fall in love with men intent upon destroying us.
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[Domestic violence is] a carefully laid physical, financial and psychological trap.
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It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is: kill her.
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We should hold abusers — and no one else — responsible for the damage they inflict.
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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.
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I did not know that the first step in any domestic violence relationship is to seduce and charm the victim. I also did not know that the second step is to isolate the victim. The next step in the domestic violence pattern is to introduce the threat of violence and see how she reacts. We victims know something you [non-victims] usually don't. It's incredibly dangerous to leave an abuser, because the final step in the domestic violence pattern is to 'kill her'. Over 70% of domestic violence murders happens after the victim has ended the relationship.
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Women are naturally competitive. That's what drives women to form cliques at early age.
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Family violence is a criminal act; perpetrators, while often former victims themselves, need to accept culpability.
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What every new parent needs.a ton of expert advice, presented with humor and zero negativity, from two moms who instantly feel like your best friends. This is the one pregnancy guide that new parents will actually want to read.