No Divorce Required Should Never Mean No Protection Required
If you are still tied to someone through property, finances, or shared decisions, but not through marriage, the system was never built to protect you.
After The Discard picks up where starting over and rebuilding is meant to begin. Only this is the story of survival, escalation of abuse, the legal maze, the financial fallout, and the slow, deliberate emotional, psychological and financial control that can often follow separation when there was never a wedding ring or a marriage certificate to “undo.”
This is the sequel to The Dream I Was Sold, and it goes further, into the courtrooms, the paperwork, the professionals who were supposed to help and didn’t, and the fight to be believed when there’s no marriage certificate to prove the relationship mattered.
Whats Inside
From the fallout of a calculated “devaluation” through years of a fake, false “manipulationship” after the discard exposes the reality of post-separation litigation abuse, when there is no family court, when there are no children and no custody battles. Where procedural bias and discrimination works alongside economic control, this book maps the patterns that keep unmarried survivors trapped in systems designed around divorce, and largely blind to everyone else.
Who Is It For?
Survivors navigating separation without divorce. Advocates and frontline workers who need language for what they are witnessing. Anyone who has been told “you weren’t even married, what’s the problem?” and knows exactly how wrong that question is.
About The Author
Loaine Marshall is a survivor advocate and human rights activist, and an expert by experience with Surviving Economic Abuse. She writes to close the gap between what the law protects and what survivors actually live through, because no divorce required should never mean no protection required
After The Discard No Divorce Required – Book 2
The Dream I Was Sold – Book 1
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