Leslie Morgan Steiner: Why Domestic Violence Victims Don’t Leave

February 7, 2013 by Gail
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Leslie Morgan Steiner was in ‘crazy love’, that is, madly in love with a man who routinely abused her and threatened her life. She tells the dark story of her relationship, correcting misconceptions many people hold about victims of domestic violence, and explaining how we can all help break the silence.

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ABOUT Leslie Morgan Steiner

“Leslie Morgan Steiner is the author of ‘Crazy Love’, a memoir about her marriage to a man who routinely abused and threatened her. In it she describes the harrowing details that unfolded unexpectedly — from the moment she met a warm, loving, infatuated man on the subway, to the moment he first laid a hand on her, when he grabbed her neck just days before their wedding.

Leslie also edited ‘Mommy Wars: Stay-at-Home and Career Moms Face Off on Their Choices, Their Lives, Their Families’, a collection of essays by women struggling to balance motherhood and their careers. She received her MBA in marketing from Wharton School of Business and worked in marketing for Johnson & Johnson before transitioning to writing, as General Manager of the Washington Post Magazine.

Leslie writes a weekly column called ‘Two Cents on Modern Motherhood’, for the website Mommy Track’d, and she has just finished her third book, on the effect of fertility treatments on modern motherhood.”

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