Living through crazy love | Leslie Morgan Steiner | TEDxRainier
Learn and consider the secrets of domestic violence as you follow Leslie from the Ivy League through a violent relationship, reaching the power to break the ...
========== Translator: Joseph Geni
Reviewer: Ivana Korom I'm here today
to talk about a disturbing question, which has an equally disturbing answer. My topic is the secrets
of domestic violence, and the question I'm going to tackle is the one question everyone always asks: Why does she stay? Why would anyone stay
with a man who beats her? I'm not a psychiatrist, a social worker or an expert in domestic violence. I'm just one woman with a story to tell. I was 22. I had just graduated
from Harvard College. I had moved to New York City
for my first job as a writer and editor
at Seventeen magazine. I had my first apartment, my first little green
American Express card, and I had a very big secret. My secret was that I had this gun loaded with hollow-point bullets
pointed at my hea...