ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 discusses the confusing and often painful obstacle in your healing process: lingering feelings of love for your ex-partner. How is this possible? He’s violent. He is abusive. Shouldn’t this knowledge destroy any feelings of love or affection a survivor may have once felt for him? Human emotions are not always “clean” and logical. In reality, many survivors of abusive and violent relationships continue to feel love for their partner after leaving. Discovering why they have these feelings and what they mean will empower you to move beyond them. This is the focus of this chapter.
