Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was? At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn't believe her luck?so when things didn't add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces together?unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he drained her credit, dodged her questions, manipulated her and misled her, she stayed with him, suppressing her growing suspicions. ...
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Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost too good to be true. Because it was? At the start of her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara Bentley couldn't believe her luck?so when things didn't add up, she struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces together?unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he drained her credit, dodged her questions, manipulated her and misled her, she stayed with him, suppressing her growing suspicions. Ultimately he would try to kill her, proving himself not a protector and provider, but a predator. This is Barbara's courageous, compelling story, in her own words?of the slow, choking darkness that fell after the honeymoon was over, what it took to finally drive her to escape and start her life anew, and her tireless efforts to protect other women and help them learn from her example.
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Barbara is upfront about her own naivete during the marriage. She also admits she was caught up in the fairy tale life of being "the admiral's wife" and repeatedly blinded herself to his strange behavior.
The writing style others describe as inconsistent is, IMHO, a creative and effective way to portray the crazy-making life she was living with her husband.
Rent the movie "Gaslight". It's an old movie about a man making his wife think she's going crazy by turning the gaslights brighter and dimmer and then denying her observations about the lights. Unfortunately, if you have been raised a certain way, it can be very easy for psycho-sociopaths to manipulate you into thinking you are bad and/or crazy.
