Pain No More

By Marjorie Walker

This poignant book takes you on a journey of adoption, family ties, love and abuse to the eventual defining moment when a choice had to be made, to either continue living in domestic violence or save yourself and create a new life free from violence.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 3, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452031446

Marjorie Walker

Pain No More by Marjorie Walker Marjorie Walker is the Author of Pain No More, her life story as a survivor of thirteen years of domestic violence.  She works with Families First, Inc. the Domestic Violence Agency of Bladen County in Elizabethtown NC as a Victim Advocate, and Court Advocate for domestic violence.   Marjorie holds a Bachelors Degree in Theology and will be pursuing her Masters. She is a Representative for SOAR Caucus (Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships), and a member of the North Carolina Coalition against Domestic Violence and presently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Optimist International Club Association.   Marjorie is also a public speaker of domestic violence, which she speaks to both women and men at Federal Domestic Violence Conferences, the North Carolina Department of Corrections and educates the communities and churches alike.    Marjorie enjoys speaking to youth at the middle and high schools on teen dating violence.  She along with Eather Mitchell has done several skits in Bladen County Schools on teen dating violence and the control of abusive relationships. She believes it is vital that our teens know how to have a healthy relationship, and understand they do not have to settle for unhealthy relationships. She wants them to realize their education takes priority. She is also a motivational speaker at women’s conferences, empowering and encouraging women on how to love themselves and to keep their self-esteem elevated.   Marjorie is the mother of two adult children, John and Jacqueline, and she has six grandchildren.  She resides in Bladen County and continues her passion of helping victims.    

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© 2010 Marjorie Walker. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 6/1/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4520-3144-6 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4520-3143-9 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010907659

Bloomington, Indiana

Contents

Dedication

Acknowledgements

Introduction By Veronica Lucas

About the Author

1

Childhood

2

Early Years of Marriage

3

Fort Bragg First Slap

4

The second child

5

Shug’s Father’s Death

6

Back to Hell

7

Going to Hawaii

8

Life in Hawaii

9

Back Stateside in 1976

10

Free at Last?

Dedication

I would like to dedicate this book to GOD who is first and foremost in my life and without HIM none of this would have been possible.

To my mother and father, Jack and Bella Lewis whom I love very dearly and who are no longer with me.

To my two children who lived this nightmare with me.

Lastly, to all the women who are living in an abusive relationship, there is hope out there for you. This book is written as a testament to let you know that no matter how bad things get you can draw strength and gain the courage to get out and live an abuse free life.

Acknowledgements

Thank you GOD for giving me the strength and courage to endure my past and survive.

To Tanisha Bagley, the author of The Price of Love, for encouraging me to tell my story.

To SOARS (Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships); The clerk of Bladen county Court System, Althea, Nicole, Vanessa Lloyd, Kim White, Lashea Reed, Miranda, Megan, Kristen, Terri , Jackie and Nikki Dennis for being supportive of me and the work I do, you are a God send to victims and their children.

Pastor Leola Cromartie and Pastor Luel Campbell thank you for your prayers. J.c. and Ellen Gill.

To Sonya, Vanessa, Tanisha, Bladen County Judges’, Baliffs’, Magistrates, Probation Officers, and the Sheriff’s Department, Mrs. Jewels; Hubert, Gary, Reginald and Valerie, Leroy and Veronica Tatum and family, Sammy’s Auto and staff of Lumberton, NC, Richard Henry Jessup of Clarkton NC; Wanda, Karen Johnson, Ida Lois Stocks, Millie, Penny and my brother and sister-in-law Peter and Diane who have kept me laughing throughout this process, my brother Keith and to all of my siblings, especially you Diane Bates for just being there. Thank you Veronica Lucas, Marcella Chappell and Cindy Edwards who have been my friends and with whom I worked with at my first Domestic Violence Agency, Southeastern Family Violence Center in Lumberton, NC and to Families First who have given me the opportunity to continue to work with victims.

Lastly, I would like to thank all of you who have been supportive of me throughout my life and who have always been there with an encouraging word, or a shoulder to lean on, you know who you are, I love you all dearly.

Introduction

By

Veronica Lucas

Have you ever felt like you were living in a dream but realized that the dream was actually your reality? Well, this book is that type of reality. Shug was raised in a Christian home free from violence and given all the opportunities an only child could possibly want in life. She met and married a man who she thought would love her unconditionally, shower her with all his love and affection and give her the world. What she got in the beginning was the fairy tale, what she had in the end was the nightmare.

This book takes you through the journey of one woman’s struggle to survive a marriage that she thought was worth saving to eventually realizing that the only thing that was worth saving was the life of her children and herself. As you read this biography, think about your own life, the life of friends and family members and how situations that seem wonderful to the public can be so different behind closed doors. Nothing is ever as it seems and you will never understand what anyone is going through unless you are actually living it or walking in their shoes so to speak. In the end you will have a glimpse of what it was for Shug to live in domestic violence and how she found her way out to finally live….No More Pain.

About the Author

Marjorie Walker is the Author of Pain No More, her life story as a survivor of thirteen years of domestic violence. She works with Families First, Inc. the Domestic Violence Agency of Bladen County in Elizabethtown NC as a Victim Advocate, and Court Advocate for domestic violence.

Marjorie holds a Bachelors Degree in Theology and will be pursuing her Masters. She is a Representative for SOAR Caucus (Sisters Overcoming Abusive Relationships), and a member of the North Carolina Coalition against Domestic Violence and presently serves on the Board of Directors. She is also a member of the Optimist International Club Association.

Marjorie is also a public speaker of domestic violence, which she speaks to both women and men at Federal Domestic Violence Conferences, the North Carolina Department of Corrections and educates the communities and churches alike.

Marjorie enjoys speaking to youth at the middle and high schools on teen dating violence. She along with Eather Mitchell has done several