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192 pages, Paperback
First published April 6, 2010
1. This book spends a lot of time victim-blaming people who are suffering from genuine abuse;
2. This book gaslights people who are struggling with similar situations, and it encourages gaslighting them in favour of sympathising with their abuser;
3. It definitely stigmatises depression (and other mental illnesses, but definitely depression);
4. It perpetuates a ridiculous notion that privileged Europeans need to 'take time off' to vacation in an under-developed country in order to 'find themselves' so that they're less abusive;
5. It excuses inexcusable behaviours by powerful people as things that their victims should sympathise with, even though there are people who have been in far worse scenarios than infertility.