Florence thinks she's finally met her soulmate when a friend from High School contacts her through the class website. Charismatic and funny, he sweeps her off her feet, but Daniel isn't all that he seems. Entangled in love, money, and a dream, she realizes his game and struggles to take back her life.
I have just finished reading the story of 14 months of my recent life. This book, even conversations in the dialog is exactly what happened to me. Florence suffered longer than I did, but her journey with her sociopath is exactly the journey that my narcissist took me on. We travelled exactly the same road with the same type of individual, and although I won't go as far as to diagnose the narcissist as a real life sociopath, I will say that there are numerous similarities. My response to that was to now refer to him as "He who shall remain nameless," because I can no longer humanize him. I had many people say the things to me that Florence's mother said to her, only to find myself ignoring it. I felt like I knew him, they didn't. "He's different with me when we're alone!," I would also say. Oh, and he was different. He was charming, caring, and just affectionate enough to keep me hanging on. I can't measure the enormity of this book for me. It has let me know that I'm not alone. It has affirmed that I'm not stupid. I'm just an empathetic woman who was willing to do anything for the man she loved. I didn't see the manipulations, but the individual I was involved with was Daniel to a "T." The excuses were the same. The charm was the same. He used me until I became inconvenient and then he scraped me out of his life like piece of gum on his shoe. I can't wait to read Disentangled. I want to see how she overcame Daniel. I want to see what other tools may be available to me in the journey back to myself. As the author of When Love Is a Lie and other books about narcissism in relationships, I have to say that the author of "Entangled" has hit it out of the park in her description of For victims of narcissist abuse (like myself), the relationship between Natalie and Daniel is, unfortunately, interchangeable with each of our own ..from the initial love-bombing to the push/pull manipulation tactics that quickly follow, to the managing down of our expectations so that we'll accept mere crumbs of attention, to the passive-aggressive BULLS*** conducted via The Cell Phone Game that strings us along day after day, to the triangulation and inevitable breaking down of our spirit over a "love" that we can't even justify to ourselves let alone to anyone else! Yup, it's all here and it makes for a great read. Since only those who have been subjected to this type of weird, manipulative abuse will ever understand it or be able to write about it, I know that this author was speaking from an experience that certainly was far from fictional. I say "Bravo" to her ability to capture our experience with such precision and with all of the emotion intact. Thank you for a great read! This book gets into the all to familiar abuse bestowed on women in relationships that they get caught up in. We want to believe people are good. Abuse in any form, verbal, physical, mental or emotional is all to real. The author doubted her own sanity and got tangled up with an all to real sociopath and because she loved being in love failed to see the warning signs. The book is smooth, clear and a great read. I'm sure it will be a real eye opener for some, perhaps helpful to others who will benefit from the read. The author put it all out there as the book is transparent with nothing held back. Great read for all especially perhaps the young and naive who want to believe in love and have to deal with these issues. They must realize it's not personal these complex creatures lurk in full view for victims and should be held accountable. Perhaps they will by a higher power. A MUST READ FOR HOPELESS ROMANTICS!
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