Pop singer Rihanna made news recently when she confessed to Oprah Winfrey her sympathy for ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who beat her up on the eve of the Grammy Awards in 2009. Rihanna’s tears for her abuser had many domestic violence advocates up in arms, and many of the rest of us scratching our heads. Here to give her take on the complex and often baffling emotional life of domestic abuse victims is Leslie Morgan Steiner. She’s a writer and the editor of the bestselling anthology Mommy Wars, and the author of, Crazy Love, her own memoir of her first marriage to an abusive man who nearly killed her.
Crazy Love
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