The Authentic Eclectic

Triumph of Love Over Abuse

My son saved me from an exploitative cult

Mary Mahoney
5 min readFeb 12, 2022

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Black and white baby with a woman’s hand wrapped around the baby’s tiny hand, Mary Mahoney, Medium
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My son was nearly two years old when I got married. Not to his father. His father was happily married with a wife and three children. His wife felt no animosity towards me or my son. I did not have an affair with her husband behind her back. I didn’t have an affair with him at all. He…

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Mary Mahoney

Endlessly curious, a voracious reader and student of psychology, neurology, and behavior. The author of Abnormal Normal. https://amzn.to/3ciFmHO.