'You said I was the perfect boyfriend. If you can prove you really love me, perhaps I can be that way again.'

 This is the chilling true story of a woman trapped in a devastating relationship as she tries to prove her love - over and over again.

 Within days of spending their first evening together, Alice and Joe were talking about getting married and spending the rest of their lives with each other. Everything about Joe seemed perfect, and Alice was the happiest she'd ever been.

 Then one day Joe saw a message on her phone from an old love, and that changed everything. He ignored Alice's explanations and desperate pleas. And soon the violence and abuse began.

 As she attempted to prove to Joe that he really was her world, Alice gave up everything that mattered to her, including her family, her friends and her job. But still it wasn't enough.

 Then the 'challenges' started, and finally Alice dared to hope that this time, maybe this time, Joe might just believe she loved him .

If You Love Me: Part 2 of 3 - True love. True terror. True story.

L'anglais à l'école primaire

If You Love Me - True love. True terror. True story.

Des études récentes montrent que 5% de la population souffre, à l'heure actuelle de troubles alimentaires. Cette proportion est encore plus élevée au sein de la population des filles et des jeunes femmes. Mais comment définir les troubles alimentaires ? Quels en sont les symptômes ? Est-il possible de revenir à une alimentation plus équilibrée ? Ce livre répond à toutes ces questions et fournit aux personnes en souffrance et à celles et ceux qui les accompagnent les informations et les outils dont elles ont besoin pour guérir. Écrit par deux experts et illustré de nombreux témoignages, ce livre vous aidera à faire les premiers pas sur la route de la guérison.

10 étapes pour surmonter les troubles alimentaires

If You Love Me: Part 1 of 3 - True love. True terror. True story.

When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever been before.

 Abused and ostracized by her mother, humiliated by her father's sexual innuendos, physically assaulted and bullied by her eldest brother, even as a young child Zoe thought she deserved the desperately unhappy life she was living.

 'I've sharpened a knife for you, ' her mother told her the first time she noticed angry red wounds on her daughter's arms. And when Zoe didn't kill herself, her mother gave her whisky, which she drank in the hope that it would dull the miserable, aching loneliness of her life.

 One day at school Zoe showed her teacher the livid bruises that were the result of her mother's latest physical assault and within days she was taken into care.

 Zoe had been at Denver House for just three weeks when an older girl asked if she'd like to go to a party, then took her to a house where there were just three men. Zoe was a virgin until that night, when two of the men raped her. Having returned to the residential unit in the early hours of the morning, when she told a member of staff what had happened to her, her social worker made a joke about it, then took her to get the morning-after pill.

 For Zoe, the indifference of the staff at the residential unit seemed like further confirmation of what her mother had always told her - she was worthless. Before long, she realised that the only way to survive in the unit was to go to the 'parties' the older girls were paid to take her to, drink the drinks, smoke the cannabis and try to blank out what was done to her when she was abused, controlled and trafficked around the country.

 No action was taken by the unit's staff or social workers when Zoe asked for their help, and without anyone to support or protect her, the horrific abuse continued for the next few years, even after she left the unit. But in her heart Zoe was always a fighter. This is the harrowing, yet uplifting story, of how she finally broke free of the abuse and neglect that destroyed her childhood and obtained justice for her years of suffering.

Trafficked Girl - Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.

 Taylor had always struggled to make friends - she felt 'different'. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn't around much. She just didn't understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.

 That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends.

 Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set - until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.

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