PROFILE IN COURAGE

“Looking back, the choice
I made in marrying my
husband was destined by
the perfect storm.”

This is how Dwan* answers the question
about why she married a man that had already
demonstrated abusive behaviors while they
were dating. “I met him at church just a few
weeks after I moved to St. Augustine and he
quickly became the center of my world,” Dwan
said. “I was unemployed, facing 40, lonely and
tired of broken relationships. I really wanted to
be married.”