Dysfunctional Struggles: Then & Now

By Angie White Luvjoy

Angie White Luvjoy grew up in the 1970s in a place where mental and physical abuse was an everyday normal life experience. Her memoir is dark and sad, and in places scary and bloody. Readers feel the pain she endured, and get a glimpse of a traumatic life in a child's eyes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Palmetto Publishing
• Release date: Oct 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798885905527

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Charleston, SC

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Dysfunctional Struggles

Copyright © 2022 by Angie White Luvjoy

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First Edition

Hardcover ISBN: 979-8-88590-550-3

Paperback ISBN: 979-8-88590-551-0

ebook ISBN: 979-8-88590-552-7

TABLE OF

CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

My Independence

Chapter 3

Expectations

Chapter 4

Marriage

About the Author

Please be advised statements may be disturbing to some readers this book may have some trigger points towards sensitive readers, please be advised.

Writing this book was not intended to hurt or embarrass some readers this was written to release hidden secrets (generations to generations) and feelings of what I’ve absorbed during my lifetime.

INTRODUCTION

As I am writing this story about my life, my heart aches, my eyes fill with tears; revisiting the past is not as easy as I thought. Growing up in the ’70s was not a good decade for kids. There were no laws like today's laws on mental or physical abuse.

The purpose of me sharing my story is