Leslie Morgan Steiner - From the Ivy League to A Gun at My Head
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- Опубликовано: 25 апр 2016
- At 22, Leslie Morgan Steiner seemed to have it all: a Harvard diploma, a glamorous job at Seventeen magazine, a funky New York City apartment. Plus a handsome, funny, street-smart boyfriend who adored her. But behind a façade of success, this golden girl hid a dark secret. She’d made a mistake shared by millions: she fell in love with the wrong person.
At first Leslie and Conor seemed as perfect together as their fairytale wedding. Then came the fights she tried to ignore: he pushed her down the stairs of the house they bought together, poured coffee grinds over her hair as she dressed for a critical job interview, choked her during an argument, and threatened her with a gun. Several times, he came close to making good on his promise to kill her. With each attack, Leslie lost another piece of herself.
Gripping and utterly compelling, New York Times bestseller Crazy Love takes you inside the violent, devastating world of abusive love. Why did Leslie stay? She thought she loved him. Find out for yourself if she had fallen truly in love - or into a psychological trap.
Today, Leslie Morgan Steiner is an expert on violence against women and other women’s issues. Her TED Talk about surviving domestic violence, titled “From the Ivy League to a Gun at My Head,” has been viewed by over three million people. She serves as a celebrity board member for the One Love Foundation, in honor of slain University of Virginia senior Yeardley Love; the National Domestic Violence Hotline; Liz Claiborne’s MADE council; and a former spokeswoman for The Harriet Tubman Center in Minneapolis, the country’s oldest shelter for abused women and children.
She is a regular national television and radio guest, appearing on National Public Radio, NBC’s Today Show, The Diane Rehm Show, MSNBC, Fox News, and other programs. She holds a BA in English from Harvard College. Her first job was as an editor at Seventeen Magazine; she financed her MBA in Marketing from Wharton by writing for Seventeen, Mademoiselle, New England Monthly and Money Magazine. She is a member of The UC Hastings School of Law “Wise Women” council.
She is also the editor of the anthology Mommy Wars and a former columnist for washingtonpost. com. She currently writes the Two Cents on Modern Motherhood column for ModernMom.com. The ethics of global surrogacy is the subject of her November 2013 book, The Baby Chase, as well as a September 2014 TEDTalk.
She lives with her three children in Washington, DC.
"And Conor saw his mother being beaten by his step-father, which is one of the worst things you can do to a child". Thank you Leslie for saying this, it is so true.
I saw her ted talk
I’m so glad she made it out alive
I have read a lot/heard a lot about domestic violence, but nothing like this presentation gives so much insight about a complex issue like this... Thank you!
I highly recommend her book also. Crazy Love
Thanks, I will check it out.
Please talk more on the gaslighting and crazy making. Women who experience this should know that when a male is abusing their heart rates actually drop making them appear calm when the police arrive while the female who is very upset with abuse appears crazy when the the authorities arrive.
I just filed for divorce from my abusive husband of 31 years. I was too scared to leave. I felt “safer” with him. When I was with him, I could monitor his moods more closely. We did not live together, I had kicked him out. This past February he came to my home, broke into my home by breaking a sliding glass door with a hammer. He then kicked in my locked bedroom door. He proceeded to beat me and choke me. I don’t know how this stopped. He has been in jail since that day. He will be out soon. I am terrified.
Hi Jae Linn, any updates? Are you safe? It’s best to leave the State and start over elsewhere.
This woman got so lucky that she was believed and her abuser let her go. Her leaving could have gotten her killed.
The bit exactly an hour in where she says she wished Connor would write a book....that made me do a double take. Brilliant lady and I really enjoyed her book.
This is a great talk, thank you.
Abusers are in absolute denial.
2:47 Leslie starts her story.
first she said there was not hint of violence in him in the beginning she would have laughed at if told her he was going to be assaulting and beating her. New the story is she wanted to move any from her seat next to him when they met but she just didn't wanna hurt his feelings
I went through this. The profession with the highest rate of domestic violence is the police, the second highest is the judiciary, the third is the medical profession. Little wonder most women don’t escape.
I’ve just listened to Mel B on audible Brutally Honest as she mentioned you & like Mel you are amazing x
I get it, I experience it's almost exactly my story but he can't get a gun thank God
GG ,what was that all about
Leslie morgan
Did he actually wanted to kill her?
yes eventually- it's more about control though, that's how it starts - if they can't get control then death is their way to total control
What’s the difference.. the actions are clear!
Before they moved to New England, she mentioned that his abusive stepdad and his mom were living nearby. Don't you think that he actually should've confronted his stepfather because of how he destroyed his childhood? That how he needs to forgive him because I still believe that he is letting his stepfather continue to control him even after he succeeded in about every way possible. I believe that if he can terrorize someone who loves him, he can at least confront someone who obviously doesn't care about him at all.
In the book Connor said he gloated to Leslie about performing a martial arts move on his step father & he was shocked. Connor owned his own dojo.
You don’t forgive the guilty
@@blackswan4486 Your Black Swan picture is gorgeous.
Same mind set as an excuse for his behavior. I can fix it mentality is real!