“It Ends with Us” (post 1) by Colleen Hoover (post 4): Author recalls her traumatic early childhood as partial basis for this novel

Note from the Author

“My earliest memory in life was from the age of two and a half years old…my father picked up our television and threw it at my mother, knocking her down.  She divorced him before I turned three…He was an alcoholic…In fact, he told me he had two knuckles replaced in his hand because he had hit her so hard, they broke against her skull.  My father regretted the way he treated my mother his entire life…and he said he would grow old and die still madly in love with her” (1, pp. 368-369).

As noted in my introduction to this blog, most adults with multiple personality have had childhood trauma, either as a victim or witness.  Search “childhood trauma” for past posts.

1. Colleen Hoover. It Ends with Us. New York, Atria, 2016.