Crazy Love Analysis

In a response to Leslie Morgan Steiner’s presentation, Leslie does not originally leave for the sake of love but this delusional love takes a sharp turn into isolation, intimidation, physical, emotional, and financial abuse. I have been fortunate enough to have read Leslie Morgan Steiner’s book “Crazy Love” and it provided me with a refined understanding of why victims of domestic violence stay. Not having experienced a domestic violent relationship myself, I was initially critically opinionated against those who chose to stay. I found it difficult to fathom why anyone would want to stay. Steiner beautifully painted a picture whereby it is simple minded to believe that all victims want to stay, the picture is bigger than what it appears to
Hearing some of the logic behind staying in a domestic violent relationship was very stimulating. I did not realize how dangerous it actually is to leave an abusive relationship and the consequences of leaving is often grave. Leslie Morgan Steiner stated that for the ages 16 to 22 years old are more prone to be in a domestic violent relationship with 3 times the likelihood and that 1 in every 3 women are abused or stalked. At that moment in her presentation, I was convinced that I was in denial of my own past
I believed that since I was not experiencing any physical abuse that I didn’t count as one of the women experiencing abuse in their relationships. Everytime I tried to break up with Izale, he would threaten to commit sucide and deep down I knew he was serious about it. Izale would have such control over me that If I did not pick up his calls he would issue an ultimatum to his mother and sisters that he would kill himsef if they did not get in contact with me. As months passed by, the relationship became poisionous and the more the months went by, the less I realized that we did not have that much in common. These repeated instances took a negative toll on my health to the point where I became hospitalized. Once discharged from the hospital I vowed to terminate the relationship at whatever exspense. I called him and told him to never call me again and any harm he choose to inflict on himself was of his own free will. The harassment did not come to a halt. Izale began stalking me on the regular, he would knock on my door in the dead of night. When I grew tired of his trantrums and informed him I had contacted the police about his absurd behavior was the end of the abuse. I was lucky enough to have gotten out of that terrible relationship whit no physical harm done to