Speak Loud

Manipulation assumes no gender… and neither does vulnerability. Here to talk about the power of standing up for yourself and stepping away from the victim mentality is Ryan Breivik. Ryan is the mastermind behind The Scarlet Letter D, a book about bouncing back and redefining yourself after divorce, which he created because he would have loved to have that knowledge back when he was going through his divorce.Ryan was married to a "narcopath", which is a combination of a narcissist and a sociopath, and has been divorced for 9 years. Ryan’s mother was highly emotional and his father didn’t often think things through, so that was the norm that he grew up with. He didn’t know he was being abused by his wife, but around the fourth year of marriage, she admitted that she had been with other men before being with him. This wasn’t the way their culture worked. Normally, physical intimacy is saved for after marriage. Ryan began to think of what else she hasn’t told him and that it was the beginning of the end