“We met for a reason. Either you’re a blessing or a lesson.”

– Frank Ocean, American singer, songwriter and rapper

It had happened again – another disastrous relationship. My young friend had endured a long series of them. Each time she was well-intentioned and convinced that she had found the right man – her knight in shining armour – but the pattern always played out the same way. The infatuation would soon end and the men began to take her for granted or take advantage of her giving nature.

In the worst of these relationships, the men became emotionally and even physically abusive. And the saddest part of it all, this young lady would stay in the relationship long past the point she should have left – often prompting intervention...

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