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In The Good, the Bad, and the Backstory, we learn about how Ryan’s mom dealt with an abusive relationship and how she finally was able to leave. Another character in the book, Andrew, has a volatile relationship with his father. He never knows what to expect - what’s going to set his dad off - and he regularly witnesses his father treating his mother poorly. For Domestic Violence Awareness Month this October, let’s look at intimate partner violence: some statistics, red flags, the …

What if you could know both sides of the story? What if you could know the “why” and not just the “what”?I spent quite a bit of my youth feeling insecure and jealous of my sister. The adults in our lives compared us, and I seemed to fall short. To my young brain, she was the favored child in the family. I took my anger out on her, which did not earn me the daughter-of-the-year award. Then the most important person in my life died: our father. I was seven and did not understand what death actuall …