Sleeping With a Stranger: How I Survived a Marriage to a Child Molester

by Patricia Wiklund

The personal story of a successful clinical psychologist and marriage counsellor offers comfort to individuals who have had similar experiences by describing how she recovered from the horror of her husband's secret obsession. Original. IP.

227 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1995

Reviews

[Fishface · Rating 2 out of 5]

This turns out to be a shrink-bashing story, not only because of the author's simplistic advice on self-care for women facing situations similar to her own -- written strictly for the lowest common denominator among her readership and ultimately kind of insulting to them -- but also because she published this long before she was really ready to come to grips with her own issues. Is this something a counselor ought to be writing about? Her unresolved exploration into an area she really ought not to be so naïve about, as a license professional in the field? Her self-pity? The enormous unaddressed questions in this story are most disturbing of all -- like the one about whether the cobbler's children are going barefoot here -- are her own kids safe from this man? What about his known victims? Her stated concern for them sounds more like CYA than anything genuine. This book is chilling, but for all the wrong reasons. I don't know whether she simply published this when her horse was still midstream or if this is what she considers a finished work of self-exploration and help for other women in her position -- if it's the latter, all I can say is "wow."

[IT'S OVER · Rating 1 out of 5]

VERY SAD BOOK PAT....YOU KNEW THE WHOLE TIME AND YOU HAVE HIDDEN BEHIND THE SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT .....ALL THESE YEARS LATER YOU STILL LIE.... I KNOW AS I AM THE LAST SURVIVOR OF DEANS MOLESTATION'S...YOU KNOW YOU WATCHED WHILE I WAS BEING RAPED....I WILL EXPOSE YOU AND YOUR SON....EVEN OPRAH IS ASHAMED....I AM COMING FOR YOU YOU CANT HIDE ANYMOE AS I HAVE HAD PI FOLLOWING YOU FOR YEARS YOU ARE FINALLY GOING TO JAIL....EVEN LOEL FINALLY CONFESSED ....AND THE STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS IS OVER .LOL.YOU ARE NOT ..EVEN AZ HAS REOPENED THE CASE....YOU ARE THE WORST....

[Edwina Book Anaconda · Rating 3 out of 5]

It boggles the mind to think about how so many people only see what they want to see and how easily most of us can be deceived.
No wonder so many people have trust issues nowadays.
Do we ever really know anyone ?