Kathleen Rioux
ASIN: B08DJDT7CQ
Publisher: Piscataqua Press
Pages: 201
"Never, never, never give up..."This is the story of a woman who did give up, and at the worst moment of her life planned a murder/suicide. Fortunately, that fateful June day did not go as planned. "In the Name of Love" is the story of how that woman, Kathleen Rioux, came to be in that situation.Raised in a family troubled by substance abuse, Kathleen spent her life being the good little daughter- stifling her feelings, walking on egg shells, always trying to avoid the next outburst, and dealing with her growing eating disorder. When she married and began a teaching career, Kathleen resigned herself to an unfulfilling marriage, bouyed by the joy of raising her two daughters.Nothing could have prepared her for the hell that her life would become when she met The Predator, and she began a downward spiral that ended with her buying a hand gun in a local gun shop. Through fate, or luck, or ...