Synopsis
Behind Closed Doors: The Addiction To Power And Control, is the prequel to my first book, The Anatomy Of A Woman Abused: One Woman's Journey. It answers in more detail, the question I am most frequently asked during book signings, Why did you stay after the first time? "The Anatomy" is loosely based on my "twelve-year" struggle to survive an abusive marriage. Behind Closed Doors, shares details of how early events in my life impacted my life choices. For most of my life I searched for a male figure to replace a father who loved me unconditionally and died suddenly when I was ten years old. My relationship with my father was the only example of a functioning relationship that I had known, up until his passing. I had the pre-conceived notion that all men would be like him. It took me years to stop adjusting my life, my thinking, my values, to force love and happiness with individuals who themselves grew up in loveless disfunction and had nothing to offer me but pain and suffering. The film version of Behind Closed Doors, is now in pre-production. It offers a gripping view inside the lives of couples from various ethnic backgrounds and tells how each family deals with the abuser's addiction to the power the victim has given them over their lives. The stage play, The Anatomy Of A Woman Abused, is now touring the U.S. I hope that my story, told through each of these vehicles, stage, film and books, will reach and encourage those who suffer in silence, and move them to seek the power within themselves, to take back control of their lives. I am encouraged myself, that the laws are finally catching up with this "Black Eye" on our country's value system". - Jaisun McMillian
About the Author
Jaisun McMillian is a published author, voice actor, singer, songwriter, playwright, director and producer, born in San Antonio Texas, USA, daughter of a New York jazz singer and musician. Jaisun moved to Los Angeles in 1966, and became a member of The World Famous Platters and later she joined Martha Reeves' Vandellas. "I sat for years and did nothing but think of myself as a victim, someone God had forsaken, as one tragedy after another attacked my inner spirit. My husband of two months died suddenly, my eighteen year old daughter was killed in a car crash, I was almost killed in a van crash and the final blow, I had to nurse one of my surviving daughters through cancer and lost that fight. I was a wreck! God had blessed me with an abundance of talent for my own use and the wonderful ability to inspire others, but I couldn't do anything for myself. I don't really know what kicked me in the seat of my pants, or if it was that drastic of an awakening at all. I do believe that the months it took me to physically take back control of my life after the accident and seeing what my friends, who were also seriously injured were going through, gave me pause to reflect. I finally realized that I was no longer a victim, but a survivor. I was now free to do whatever I wanted to do with my life. I just had to get up and move! One night I got up and sat before my computer and began to write the details of my life, the good, bad and ugly. Out of that dramatic purging of my deepest and most guarded memories came three books, two films, and two plays". - Jaisun McMillian
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