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She survived a husband who beat her without leaving marks. She trusted a sister who slept with her fianc\u00e9, then later forced her to sell the home she built with her own hands. This is not a tragedy. This is a memoir of survival.<\/p><p><em>Love Hurts<\/em> follows Trudis Percival from the rubble of 1950s Germany to the hills of Australia. Along the way, she loses her children to a legal system that offers no protection. She lost her health to ten strokes and a broken hip, ignored by doctors. But she never loses her voice.<\/p><p>The core message is simple yet brutal: love can break you, but being broken is not the end of your story. Forgiveness does not mean letting the same people hurt you again. And sometimes the greatest act of survival is walking away from those you love most. This book speaks directly to survivors of domestic abuse, anyone who has been betrayed by family, and readers who are tired of polished happy endings. 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