Chicagoans is a first-person account from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford. This week’s Chicagoan is Luana Lienhart, 39, a domestic violence counselor.
And usually by that point the abuser has systematically cut them off from their support system. A lot of times abusers will sabotage their victims from working outside the home or being financially independent in some way. Sometimes the abuser will destroy passports or photo IDs. So when people say, “Just go!,” it’s like, “Go where and do what? With what money?”
