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Out of the Darkness
It was the case that shocked the nation. On the evening of 20 April 2011, Tina Nash's life changed forever. After suffering months of beatings and domestic abuse at the hands of boyfriend Shane Jenkin, she was subjected to a barbaric and prolonged attack during which Jenkin beat her unconscious and gouged out both her eyes. When he was jailed in May 2012, people struggled to comprehend the scale of the violence endured by this attractive mother of two at her home in Cornwall. In Out of the Darkness, Tina tells her full story - of what life with a violent partner is really like and how she survived 12 hours of sustained and unimaginable violence in her own home. Learning to adjust to life without her sight, Tina speaks bravely about how her children have given her the courage to keep going, and how - step by careful step - she is learning to live again. With statistics on domestic violence rising, Tina's incredible memoir of survival makes for essential reading.
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289 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 1, 2012
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August 26, 2016
Este é daqueles livros que nos arrepiam até ao mais fundo da alma. Pela brutalidade, pela violência psicológica, pelos sonhos desfeitos, pelas vidas roubadas e pela felicidade completamente destruída. Estava com receio de não gostar deste livro, mas dei por mim a lê-lo de uma forma voraz e sempre que parava de ler e estava a fazer outras coisas não conseguia deixar de pensar no que aconteceu a esta pobre rapariga.
Sei que há pessoas que leram e desde o início censuraram Tina, por ela ser permissiva, por deixar que alguém como Shane entrasse na sua vida e a destruísse por completo. Se por um lado concordo plenamente com essas pessoas, por outro lado consigo perceber a esperança que Tina trazia no coração de que ele mudasse e passasse a ser um bom rapaz. A isso chama-se estar completamente iludida e enganada. Tina sempre havia sido uma jovem bonita e decidida. Teve o filho muito nova e nunca teve muita sorte no que diz respeito ao amor e então aparece-lhe Shane, um homem forte e que ela pensa que a pode proteger contra tudo e contra todos. Alguém que a pode fazer feliz e que a aceita mesmo tendo um filho.
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Sei que há pessoas que leram e desde o início censuraram Tina, por ela ser permissiva, por deixar que alguém como Shane entrasse na sua vida e a destruísse por completo. Se por um lado concordo plenamente com essas pessoas, por outro lado consigo perceber a esperança que Tina trazia no coração de que ele mudasse e passasse a ser um bom rapaz. A isso chama-se estar completamente iludida e enganada. Tina sempre havia sido uma jovem bonita e decidida. Teve o filho muito nova e nunca teve muita sorte no que diz respeito ao amor e então aparece-lhe Shane, um homem forte e que ela pensa que a pode proteger contra tudo e contra todos. Alguém que a pode fazer feliz e que a aceita mesmo tendo um filho.
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January 5, 2013
This is an incredibly inarticulate account of a woman who prioritised her base needs in order to maintain a sexual relationship with a man who beat her savagely and who reconciled with him repeatedly after every attack. What is most shocking about this story is the fact that this woman breached bail conditions which were constructed to protect her and her two vulnerable children and continued to expose them to this man’s physical and emotional abuse. I was alarmed that the social work department did not remove the children at the earliest opportunity as this woman was evidently incapable of protecting them from the impact of abuse. She was eventually blinded by her boyfriend in a prolonged attack however I failed to garner any sympathy for this self-indulgent narcissistic woman who seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time throwing her arms in the air, which is what I ended up doing with the book.
February 20, 2013
i have to agree with deirdre's review - this selfish woman seemed to spend her whole life persuing a steroid-riddled neanderthal because the sex was so good after he'd beaten the shit out of her. i too felt it very hard to garner any sympathy for her and all my pity goes to her children and her family who repeatedly tried to warn her off this dangerous man.
selfish, selfish woman.
selfish, selfish woman.
September 1, 2020
Ja dziękuję za taką miłość. Historia Tiny jest zdecydowanie jedną z najbardziej wstrząsających, jakie czytałam. Zazwyczaj takie historie mnie nie ruszają, a mam ich za sobą całkiem sporo, ale tutaj, w krytycznym momencie czułam się nieswojo. To uczucie było na tyle intensywne, że nie dałam rady dokończyć książki, musiałam to zrobić następnego dnia.
Nigdy nie byłam w stanie zrozumieć takich kobiet i nigdy nie będę w stanie. Nie rozumiem jak można godzić się na takie traktowanie, nie widzieć oczywistych znaków, ciągle wracać do brutala, kłamać dla niego, zmieniać zeznania w sądzie. Nie rozumiem i część mnie nienawidzi takich kobiet za to, co dają ze sobą zrobić. Z historii Tiny jasno można było wywnioskować, że Shane jest psychopatą, że kompletnie jej nie szanuje, gardzi nią i było to jasne już po niedługim czasie związku. Znikał na wiele godzin, imprezował z nieznanymi kobietami, olewał ją całkowicie i nic go nie obchodziło, że ona się martwi i czeka po nocach na niego.
Ten związek był jak narkotyk, Shane kompletnie owinął ją sobie w okół palca, robił z nią co chciał. Przejawiał niezdrową fascynację horrorami, odgrywaniem scen z nich i oglądaniem najbardziej krwawych scen, mimo, że Tina tak bardzo ich nienawidziła. Nie odeszła od niego nawet wtedy, gdy z lodowatym spokojem wyznał jej, że zadźgał własnego psa! Jakim chorym pojebem trzeba być, żeby coś takiego zrobić i jak stukniętą laską trzeba być, żeby po takim wyznaniu nie uciec, gdzie pieprz rośnie. Zwłaszcza, że wraz z nią mieszkała dwójka jej dzieci, z czego najmłodsze nie miało nawet trzech lat!
Nie rozumiem i nie chcę zrozumieć, nie chcę też roztrząsać, bo gotuje się we mnie gniew! Ta książka wyjątkowo nie jest dla każdego, bo opisane w niej brutalne sceny aż za mocno działają na wyobraźnię. Dodam tylko, że Amber w historiach prawdziwych znane jest ze swoich absurdalnie wręcz brzydkich okładek... Może książka ku przestrodze, ale kogo? Chyba totalnych zaślepionych idiotek...
Nigdy nie byłam w stanie zrozumieć takich kobiet i nigdy nie będę w stanie. Nie rozumiem jak można godzić się na takie traktowanie, nie widzieć oczywistych znaków, ciągle wracać do brutala, kłamać dla niego, zmieniać zeznania w sądzie. Nie rozumiem i część mnie nienawidzi takich kobiet za to, co dają ze sobą zrobić. Z historii Tiny jasno można było wywnioskować, że Shane jest psychopatą, że kompletnie jej nie szanuje, gardzi nią i było to jasne już po niedługim czasie związku. Znikał na wiele godzin, imprezował z nieznanymi kobietami, olewał ją całkowicie i nic go nie obchodziło, że ona się martwi i czeka po nocach na niego.
Ten związek był jak narkotyk, Shane kompletnie owinął ją sobie w okół palca, robił z nią co chciał. Przejawiał niezdrową fascynację horrorami, odgrywaniem scen z nich i oglądaniem najbardziej krwawych scen, mimo, że Tina tak bardzo ich nienawidziła. Nie odeszła od niego nawet wtedy, gdy z lodowatym spokojem wyznał jej, że zadźgał własnego psa! Jakim chorym pojebem trzeba być, żeby coś takiego zrobić i jak stukniętą laską trzeba być, żeby po takim wyznaniu nie uciec, gdzie pieprz rośnie. Zwłaszcza, że wraz z nią mieszkała dwójka jej dzieci, z czego najmłodsze nie miało nawet trzech lat!
Nie rozumiem i nie chcę zrozumieć, nie chcę też roztrząsać, bo gotuje się we mnie gniew! Ta książka wyjątkowo nie jest dla każdego, bo opisane w niej brutalne sceny aż za mocno działają na wyobraźnię. Dodam tylko, że Amber w historiach prawdziwych znane jest ze swoich absurdalnie wręcz brzydkich okładek... Może książka ku przestrodze, ale kogo? Chyba totalnych zaślepionych idiotek...
August 10, 2022
Shocked by some of the victim blaming in reviews of this book, which demonstrate a clear lack of understanding of the dynamics of abuse. The blame lies squarely with the perpetrator. All those people who know they would have left: you don’t know until you are in that situation. Tina Nash was obviously terrified of him and he manipulated her into believing the abuse was her fault. She was scared of the consequences of supporting the police investigation and that’s why she withdrew her statement not because she didn’t care about her kids. I do not know how she found the strength to continue her life after what was done to her.
September 12, 2014
I don't know what to say about this real life story without seeming mean, patronizing or making less of what this lady went through.
I admire her. But the other half wonders why, why, why! when she had children and they were in the house when attacks on her went on she seems to think it didn't affect them because they were asleep, or they were at someone's house. Did she not realize that children can feel things and know their parents well to see the stress, unhappiness, atmosphere that was being brought about because of her obsession with this nutter called Shane?
I can't judge her, but I would like to think I would see the signs of someone who was watching horror films and getting enjoyment out of people being torn limb from limb, and her not really uttering a sign or reproach just sitting and hiding into his shoulder OR him being on games all day and all night enjoying and talking about people being shot, all that blood, guts or a woman being tied to a bed and her limbs being torn one at a time and her eyes being gauged out of her head, surely, for me, that would by now ring alarm bells! How can someone be obsessed with someone like that?
I know a friend who stayed with her husband because he kept saying "sorry" when he hit her and was all sweetness and light and gave good sex! she stayed with him until she was so badly beaten. No kids involved, but this lady had kids and as a mother, no matter how dangerous I felt, I would have protected my kids no matter what happened to me.
Part of me things, maybe there was something wrong with her mental state at the time, not anything to do with her meeting this monster, but before she got involved with him. Why do I say that? because, she was told about him by friends and family, she saw the tattoos he held on his body, really aggressive ones all inflicting pain. She heard that he had deliberatly tormented his dog and killed him and still she stayed?
I admire her for the way she has handled everything since, and that is not minimizing her resiliance at all. But I do question her sanity at the start of the relationship and where in her life she was at when she met this man.
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND, THIS IS ONLY MY HONEST TAKE ON IT.
I admire her. But the other half wonders why, why, why! when she had children and they were in the house when attacks on her went on she seems to think it didn't affect them because they were asleep, or they were at someone's house. Did she not realize that children can feel things and know their parents well to see the stress, unhappiness, atmosphere that was being brought about because of her obsession with this nutter called Shane?
I can't judge her, but I would like to think I would see the signs of someone who was watching horror films and getting enjoyment out of people being torn limb from limb, and her not really uttering a sign or reproach just sitting and hiding into his shoulder OR him being on games all day and all night enjoying and talking about people being shot, all that blood, guts or a woman being tied to a bed and her limbs being torn one at a time and her eyes being gauged out of her head, surely, for me, that would by now ring alarm bells! How can someone be obsessed with someone like that?
I know a friend who stayed with her husband because he kept saying "sorry" when he hit her and was all sweetness and light and gave good sex! she stayed with him until she was so badly beaten. No kids involved, but this lady had kids and as a mother, no matter how dangerous I felt, I would have protected my kids no matter what happened to me.
Part of me things, maybe there was something wrong with her mental state at the time, not anything to do with her meeting this monster, but before she got involved with him. Why do I say that? because, she was told about him by friends and family, she saw the tattoos he held on his body, really aggressive ones all inflicting pain. She heard that he had deliberatly tormented his dog and killed him and still she stayed?
I admire her for the way she has handled everything since, and that is not minimizing her resiliance at all. But I do question her sanity at the start of the relationship and where in her life she was at when she met this man.
PLEASE BEAR IN MIND, THIS IS ONLY MY HONEST TAKE ON IT.
September 9, 2015
7 de 10*
Regra geral vivo imenso os livros, entro na história, sofro com os dramas, riu com as alegrias. Mas quando está a ser demasiado intenso páro e penso, calma é ficção! Neste "Saída da Escuridão" a história é real e conseguiu em muito superar a ficção, o que o tornou um livro doloroso de ler.
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Regra geral vivo imenso os livros, entro na história, sofro com os dramas, riu com as alegrias. Mas quando está a ser demasiado intenso páro e penso, calma é ficção! Neste "Saída da Escuridão" a história é real e conseguiu em muito superar a ficção, o que o tornou um livro doloroso de ler.
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February 17, 2013
God awful things one human being can do to another. Thank god the man who caused what happened to this woman is behind bars!.
May 10, 2015
Couldn't put it down. Horrific ordeal of a survivor of severe domestic abuse x
November 12, 2015
Só dou 3* por a história ser verídica. De resto é deprimente. Tina é o exemplo do ditado: Na primeira toda a gente cai, na segunda só cai quem quer, na terceira só os tolos.
September 6, 2023
No jest to dosyć mocna historia, taka w której można powiedzieć, że kobieta jest sama sobie winna, bo kilkukrotnie wracała do psychopaty, który się nad nią znęcał i pastwił fizycznie i psychicznie. I to choć, jak sama opowiada, gardziła w młodości matką, którą bił partner - chyba to jest aż tak trudne żeby dostrzec w jakim kierunku się samemu zmierza... Jedno trzeba przyznać - trzeba mieć odwagę, by opowiedzieć taką historię, bo na pewno była oceniana nieprzychylnie nie raz... Dlatego ja oceniać nie chcę (nawet jeśli moja opinia brzmi jak ocena, tak naprawdę co tu oceniać? oceniać można czyjś wybór, moim zdaniem to nie był żaden świadomy wybór, raczej jakieś zaślepienie, uzależnienie, zmanipulowanie). Oczywiście jest to dla mnie trudne do pojęcia jak można tyle razy wybaczać, dawać szansę komuś, kto jest agresywnym psychopatą... Ale słów "nie rozumiem" bym tu nie użył, bo choć może książka jakoś bardzo tego nie tłumaczy, to jednak opisuje początek ich związku i kto czytał uważnie, ten powinien wiedzieć, że facet pokazał się jako ostoja bezpieczeństwa i miś co to gardzi przemocą wobec kobiet... No i to chyba jest jak z tym gotowaniem żaby - z gorącej wody wyskoczy natychmiast, ale gdy się podgrzewa zimną... Żadna kobieta nie zakochuje się w bestii, każda zakochuje się w Księciu.
Tylko że po interwencjach policji i jego już areszcie, po kilku takich zjazdach, po pokazach całkowitej kontroli i manipulacji, nadal jeszcze być od niego tak uzależnioną... Że przypadek dla psychologa to wiadomo, ale co to mogło być? Syndrom sztokholmski?
Tak czy inaczej podziwiam autorkę za odwagę i dobrze, że opowiedziała swoją historię, może chociaż ktoś czytając ją, opamięta się wcześniej, a to już będzie sukces.
Sama książka jest ciekawa i niezbyt długa (nie jest niepotrzebnie rozwleczona), szybko i hmm, lekko (pomijając treść) się czyta.
Natomiast jeszcze bardziej niepojęte są dla mnie dwie kwestie tylko krótko wspomniane w książce: to że jej oprawca pojechał na imprezę i chwalił się tym co jej zrobił, a nikt nie zareagował, bo wszyscy się go bali - serio? No ja rozumiem, że nikt nie będzie zgrywał bohatera przed dwumetrowym psychopatą na sterydach, ale po cichu wyjść z imprezy i zadzwonić na policję, to by było pierwsze co mi przyszło do głowy, a tymczasem tam nikomu nie przyszło?! A druga sprawa - autorka musiała czekać do wciąż przekładanej rozprawy żeby móc w ogóle skorzystać z pomocy psychologa - to też jest chore...
(czytana/słuchana: 5-6.09.2023)
4+/5 [8/10]
Tylko że po interwencjach policji i jego już areszcie, po kilku takich zjazdach, po pokazach całkowitej kontroli i manipulacji, nadal jeszcze być od niego tak uzależnioną... Że przypadek dla psychologa to wiadomo, ale co to mogło być? Syndrom sztokholmski?
Tak czy inaczej podziwiam autorkę za odwagę i dobrze, że opowiedziała swoją historię, może chociaż ktoś czytając ją, opamięta się wcześniej, a to już będzie sukces.
Sama książka jest ciekawa i niezbyt długa (nie jest niepotrzebnie rozwleczona), szybko i hmm, lekko (pomijając treść) się czyta.
Natomiast jeszcze bardziej niepojęte są dla mnie dwie kwestie tylko krótko wspomniane w książce: to że jej oprawca pojechał na imprezę i chwalił się tym co jej zrobił, a nikt nie zareagował, bo wszyscy się go bali - serio? No ja rozumiem, że nikt nie będzie zgrywał bohatera przed dwumetrowym psychopatą na sterydach, ale po cichu wyjść z imprezy i zadzwonić na policję, to by było pierwsze co mi przyszło do głowy, a tymczasem tam nikomu nie przyszło?! A druga sprawa - autorka musiała czekać do wciąż przekładanej rozprawy żeby móc w ogóle skorzystać z pomocy psychologa - to też jest chore...
(czytana/słuchana: 5-6.09.2023)
4+/5 [8/10]
February 26, 2018
I’ve had a life long quest of trying to understand what sets apart women who end up in these kind of situations from those who don’t. While there are situations where lack of support from familly, isolation due to immigration or poverty, medical conditions play a part, after reading this book I came to a new conclusion. I understand now that there really is a small percentage of women who really, truly and sadly without knowing it do love the abuse. The more the abuser put our heroine down the higher she’d get when he’d have a normal gesture towards her. She couldn’t get that from a normal relationship because those lows don’t exist in normal relationships so neither do the highs.
3 weeks into their relationship the man turns up for their date at her place, drunk, at 4:30 AM in the morning, being late only about 7 hours, after not answering his phone all night. He doesn’t aplogies but proceeds to have sex with her and post coitus she realises she’s in love. Never could she have enjoyed as much a date where the man turned up on time or called to apologise in advance when late.
The woman needed the turmoil of having had waited all night in order to enjoy the high of finally seeing him in the morning. And from there it escalated to nearly being killed every other day, and the high of receiving a kind word in between.
The most frustrating thing about this story is that our heroine never realizes this aspect of her personality, and probably never will.
3 weeks into their relationship the man turns up for their date at her place, drunk, at 4:30 AM in the morning, being late only about 7 hours, after not answering his phone all night. He doesn’t aplogies but proceeds to have sex with her and post coitus she realises she’s in love. Never could she have enjoyed as much a date where the man turned up on time or called to apologise in advance when late.
The woman needed the turmoil of having had waited all night in order to enjoy the high of finally seeing him in the morning. And from there it escalated to nearly being killed every other day, and the high of receiving a kind word in between.
The most frustrating thing about this story is that our heroine never realizes this aspect of her personality, and probably never will.
May 14, 2017
Aviso já que é uma história verídica e que para quem já sofreu violência doméstica, recomendo a não lerem porque algumas partes deste livro são impressionantes e não é para qualquer estômago. Fala da Tina e da sua relação tóxica para com o Shane, Tina pensa que Shane a ama, até ao dia em que leva o primeiro soco, e a partir daí foi sempre violência para cima da Tina. Claro que havia dias em que ele se mostrava arrependido e que queria melhorar e ser um bom homem para Tina, mas voltava sempre ao mesmo. Até ao dia em que a cegou, Tina viu que já não era capaz de aguentar mais. É uma história forte e bastante sensível, em que vemos o sofrimento pelo qual Tina passou na realidade e que não é fácil.
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July 16, 2025
Heartbreaking to read.
I can’t find the right words to describe the emotions I went through reading this book. I think I went through every emotion possible! I tell my own three daughters you’re intelligent so use your brain not your heart. Easier said than done once they’ve got inside you and taken away your senses. I think Tina is lucky to be alive and I hope she’s moved on and getting on with her life and that her sons have now grown into happy young men. A very emotional book that had me in tears more than once. Tears of despair and tears of happiness. Stay strong lovely beautiful Tina stay strong!
I can’t find the right words to describe the emotions I went through reading this book. I think I went through every emotion possible! I tell my own three daughters you’re intelligent so use your brain not your heart. Easier said than done once they’ve got inside you and taken away your senses. I think Tina is lucky to be alive and I hope she’s moved on and getting on with her life and that her sons have now grown into happy young men. A very emotional book that had me in tears more than once. Tears of despair and tears of happiness. Stay strong lovely beautiful Tina stay strong!
April 17, 2018
A sad story with a lesson for everyone
I usually do not enjoy autobiographies because even though the story is profound the writer battles to convey their true emotions. But Tina triumphed in the end thanks to her family and her support team. Great to read how excellent the police were in their determination to catch this thug. Sadly we are hearing or reading more and more of these stories of domestic violence. It needs to stop! Women and men need to be more aware of the 'once a wife/husband abuser always a wife/husband abuser!
I usually do not enjoy autobiographies because even though the story is profound the writer battles to convey their true emotions. But Tina triumphed in the end thanks to her family and her support team. Great to read how excellent the police were in their determination to catch this thug. Sadly we are hearing or reading more and more of these stories of domestic violence. It needs to stop! Women and men need to be more aware of the 'once a wife/husband abuser always a wife/husband abuser!
August 7, 2022
Wow, just wow.
This book gripped me from the inside out, what an amazing woman and family. Insperational. At times I wondered how it could be a true story, how any human could treat another that way. Other points in the book brought huge lumps to my throat and I had to stop myself from crying. Lots of wonderful memories and positive humour made me smile too. What a warrior of a woman you are Tina Nash
This book gripped me from the inside out, what an amazing woman and family. Insperational. At times I wondered how it could be a true story, how any human could treat another that way. Other points in the book brought huge lumps to my throat and I had to stop myself from crying. Lots of wonderful memories and positive humour made me smile too. What a warrior of a woman you are Tina Nash
January 29, 2022
Shocking
I got halfway through chapter 18 and was physically sick. I had to put this down and take a day to pick it back up. A horrendous read and this book will stay with me forever. That man is a absolute beast.... An animal.... I wish you well Tina and I hope he's rots in hell for eternity
I got halfway through chapter 18 and was physically sick. I had to put this down and take a day to pick it back up. A horrendous read and this book will stay with me forever. That man is a absolute beast.... An animal.... I wish you well Tina and I hope he's rots in hell for eternity
February 10, 2022
To w jaki sposób ta kobieta męczyła się wywołało we mnie dużo współczucia, mało pisała o swoim strachu, brakowało mi opisu jej strachu. Jestem przerażona tym , w jaki sposób gościu mógł tak planować zrobienie jej krzywdy, Napisała tę książkę by ostrzec kobiety, ale brakowało mi w niej , szczegółowych opisów tego co czuje.
March 31, 2018
Amazing lady
What can i say, a woman of great courage and determination.. I admire her for what she endured at the hands of that brute.. It was very interesting to read especially has it is the home town where I live. Amazing lady. I wish her all the best for the future.
What can i say, a woman of great courage and determination.. I admire her for what she endured at the hands of that brute.. It was very interesting to read especially has it is the home town where I live. Amazing lady. I wish her all the best for the future.
April 2, 2023
Absolutely shocking. No words can describe how disturbed this creature was. How amazing that she found her fighting spirit after enduring that level of abuse of a feral disturbed animal. Hope her children get through it all as unscathed as possible. Love to you all
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April 21, 2023
This book made me feel so sick. This poor woman at the hands of a monster. Lost her self and her sight. Broke my heart. For her to turn her life around and hold her head up high in the end. Honestly, my heart burst with pride. I truly don't know how she overcome this.
Shocking
Shocking
June 16, 2020
Read the book when I was younger. Disturbing but interesting story.
October 20, 2021
I haven’t quite finished it yet but it’s very shocking and sad. Tina made very bad choices and put her children at risk but if you haven’t been in that kind of situation you can’t really judge.
January 6, 2022
really goood read and well written
February 8, 2025
Swieta ksiązka warta przeczytania przeczytałam jednym tchem.
Polecam
Polecam
August 12, 2014
I mainly read fiction, but I do like to read non-fiction and graphic novels so I don't end up in a reading slump and keeps my love if reading going.
I have read a lot of child abuse novels having been a victim myself of physical abuse at home and in a relationship I thankfully got put of. I could completely emphasise what this women went through as you grow paralysed by fear, totally and utterly destroyed by brain washing, verbal abuse and physical abuse.
When I read this women's story it made me feel how lucky I was to have got out sooner from being in this terrible situation as I escaped with just a broken nose and my face like elephant man for a while. People who haven't been in these situations should not judge you. An abusive person is usually abusive in many ways, they really can do a number on you they make you take the blame and you start thinking its you and there must be something wrong with you to deserve the treatment, that you must push peoples buttons for rthem to react that way to you.
It is never acceptable to mentally, physically and emotionally abuse somebody. It is like a sickness that needs stamping out of society.
This story is truly harrowing, difficult to read in moments and also unputdownable, its an important read and very informative. Beware of thus type of person thet come in many forms.
This poor lady will be permanently blind due to her abuser, but he will aksdo be permanently incarcerated in either prison or a mental ward. It's amazing how she turns her life around and a stays strong for her kids and she is an inspiration to other's.
I have read a lot of child abuse novels having been a victim myself of physical abuse at home and in a relationship I thankfully got put of. I could completely emphasise what this women went through as you grow paralysed by fear, totally and utterly destroyed by brain washing, verbal abuse and physical abuse.
When I read this women's story it made me feel how lucky I was to have got out sooner from being in this terrible situation as I escaped with just a broken nose and my face like elephant man for a while. People who haven't been in these situations should not judge you. An abusive person is usually abusive in many ways, they really can do a number on you they make you take the blame and you start thinking its you and there must be something wrong with you to deserve the treatment, that you must push peoples buttons for rthem to react that way to you.
It is never acceptable to mentally, physically and emotionally abuse somebody. It is like a sickness that needs stamping out of society.
This story is truly harrowing, difficult to read in moments and also unputdownable, its an important read and very informative. Beware of thus type of person thet come in many forms.
This poor lady will be permanently blind due to her abuser, but he will aksdo be permanently incarcerated in either prison or a mental ward. It's amazing how she turns her life around and a stays strong for her kids and she is an inspiration to other's.
December 16, 2016
Como alguém aqui escreveu só atribuo três estrelas por ser um livro baseado em factos verídicos. E, nos moldes que aconteceram, eu teria vergonha em querer fazer um livro disso. Há demasiados meios para mulheres/homens se livrarem da violência doméstica. Felizmente, e estamos a falar do Reino Unido, a polícia é célere a actuar. Contudo, o egoísmo desmedido de uma mulher que, só para querer ter um namorado brutamontes em casa, coloca a sua vida e a dos seus dois filhos em risco... Desculpem mas não é só o Shane que não bate bem da bola. Menos, Dona Tina, muito menos...
August 30, 2014
An honest account by a true survivor. I cannot think of anything worse than to lose my sight and not see my son grow up. I simply stand up and applaud the courage and determination Tina Nash has found within herself not to succumb to giving up on life.
We, in the UK, have become so "P.C" yet domestic violence is on the increase! It's ok for women (and men) to suffer and for the perpetrators to walk away with cautions. No-one really wants to address these issues because it's so rife, MPs know they would be opening a can of worms. There is little support to such victims, but the Government needs to make a stance. Needs to support and install respect. There is less and less respect being shown by youngsters, that DM is only going to magnify in the forthcoming years, unless we get tougher and reinstall old fashioned values and tougher sentences.
I will get off my soap box now! But well done Tina Nash for hanging in there.
We, in the UK, have become so "P.C" yet domestic violence is on the increase! It's ok for women (and men) to suffer and for the perpetrators to walk away with cautions. No-one really wants to address these issues because it's so rife, MPs know they would be opening a can of worms. There is little support to such victims, but the Government needs to make a stance. Needs to support and install respect. There is less and less respect being shown by youngsters, that DM is only going to magnify in the forthcoming years, unless we get tougher and reinstall old fashioned values and tougher sentences.
I will get off my soap box now! But well done Tina Nash for hanging in there.
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December 18, 2015(...)
Fiquei sem saber bem o que pensar ao ler este testemunho. Durante grande parte da narrativa Tina sabe que estão a maltratá-la. Sabe que aquilo não é normal. Sabe que aquele relacionamento é abusivo. Mas pensa constantemente que ele a ama. Que ele sabe ser amoroso. Que aquilo foi um deslize e que ele rapidamente voltará a ser o seu protetor. Quase que parecia que ela gostava que lhe batessem! Perdoava-lhe tudo. As pessoas queriam ajudá-la e ela dizia que elas não compreendiam. Acredito que só quem passa por uma relação dessas sabe o que acontece, mas atingiu-me um pouco ela saber que daquela relação só podiam sair coisas negativas mas mesmo assim perdoava-o... E voltava a perdoar...
Um livro que me atingiu não pela crueldade a que Tina foi sujeita, mas pela mentalidade dela em relação a tudo.
Opinião completa em http://blocodedevaneios.blogspot.pt/2...
Fiquei sem saber bem o que pensar ao ler este testemunho. Durante grande parte da narrativa Tina sabe que estão a maltratá-la. Sabe que aquilo não é normal. Sabe que aquele relacionamento é abusivo. Mas pensa constantemente que ele a ama. Que ele sabe ser amoroso. Que aquilo foi um deslize e que ele rapidamente voltará a ser o seu protetor. Quase que parecia que ela gostava que lhe batessem! Perdoava-lhe tudo. As pessoas queriam ajudá-la e ela dizia que elas não compreendiam. Acredito que só quem passa por uma relação dessas sabe o que acontece, mas atingiu-me um pouco ela saber que daquela relação só podiam sair coisas negativas mas mesmo assim perdoava-o... E voltava a perdoar...
Um livro que me atingiu não pela crueldade a que Tina foi sujeita, mas pela mentalidade dela em relação a tudo.
Opinião completa em http://blocodedevaneios.blogspot.pt/2...
February 11, 2016
Senti falta de algum enquadramento (não sabemos por exemplo de onde vem o dinheiro, ela não trabalha, ele não trabalha). Não é que o dinheiro importe para a essência deste livro, a violência domestica! Detesto, livros de terror e foi isso que a Tina Nash nos contou, a sua experiencia de terror, dei por mim com vontade de vomitar tantas vezes ao longo do livro, a obsessão é trágica, e demora muito tempo a ser libertada, quando é! Quem mais sofre são sem dúvida os filhos, mas a Tina, não sei como aguentou, não sei se eu não teria acabado com a minha vida! É mais fácil escrever do que fazer eu sei, mas provavelmente não teria aguentado!
Um alerta, muito pertinente numa altura em que cada vez se sabem mais fatos sobre este tema, infelizmente grande parte dos que são divulgados são-no pelas piores razões, a morte! Apesar de violento recomendo que todas as mulheres leiam a vida de Tina Nash!
Um alerta, muito pertinente numa altura em que cada vez se sabem mais fatos sobre este tema, infelizmente grande parte dos que são divulgados são-no pelas piores razões, a morte! Apesar de violento recomendo que todas as mulheres leiam a vida de Tina Nash!
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