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    Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know
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    Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know
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    Getting It Through My Thick Skull: Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know

    By Mary Jo Buttafuoco

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    "I think, every once in a while, about the life I should be living, the one I fully expected to be enjoying right about now. In the life I was supposed to have, my husband and I would be admiring the view from our waterfront home in the town where we were both born and raised. Good friends and neighbors would be next door, up the street, and all over the neighborhood. Our parents would live only blocks away, in our childhood homes. We'd be taking our grandchildren to the beach club on weekends, enjoying the fruits of our labors and looking forward to a peaceful retirement. That was the plan, anyway . . . but the whole world knows how that turned out."

    Mary Jo Buttafuoco's anonymous life as a suburban wife and mother in sleepy Massapequa, New York, on Long Island, ended in May 1992, when she was shot in the head on her own front porch by her husband's sixteen-year-old mistress. The 'Long Island Lolita' saga sparked a media frenzy that continues to this day. As the years passed and Mary Jo steadfastly stood by her man, Joey Buttafuoco, while  he and Amy Fisher continued to make headlines, one question lingered in the minds of people everywhere: Why did she stay for so long?

    In Getting It Through My Thick Skull, Mary Jo finally answers that question fully and convincingly. The answer is simple, yet it took almost three decades of turmoil to discover for herself—she was married to a sociopath. Using her tragic and triumphant life lessons and never-before-told accounts of life with Joey, Mary Joe helps readers undrestand sociaopathic behavior and the emotional traps it springs on willing partners, and offers hope and help for the millions of people caught in the cycle of toxic relationships.

    In addition, readers will meet a new-and-improved Mary Jo, confident and at peace with her new life, and will be inspired by her comback. Through private details of the resiliency and rebuilding she has forged over the past seventeen years, Mary Jo shares for the first time:
    • Her addiction to painkillers and her recovery through the Betty Ford Center
    • Her overdue decision to leave Joey and start over again in California—3,000 miles from her support system
    • Taking control of her physical, spiritual, and emotional health and learned to feel attractive and in control again
    • Her highly controversial forgiveness of Amy Fisher
    • The letters she recieved from both Amy and Joy, and her reactions to both
    • How she found the courage to trust, believe, and find hope in a committed relationship once again
    • The details of the new love in her life and the joys and challenges of raising a Brady Bunch—style family

    Includes a 16-page color insert from the Buttafuoco family album.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHealth Communications Inc EB
    Release dateJan 1, 2010
    ISBN9780757396007
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    • 3/5
      This book was just laying around the house, I'm not sure why, someone had probably gotten it out of the library. I had nothing else to read and so I wound up starting and ending it the same day.I was technically alive when the drama was happening, but I was a kid, so I don't remember any of the original incident. I do remember the more recent coverage of some of the people in this book trying like hell to hold onto their fifteen minutes of fame and wondering why the woman who was shot by Amy Fisher would want to be anywhere near her voluntarily. This book sort of answers some of those questions.Honestly it's only one part of a wicked messy three sided story I think, and the whole story isn't here. But, when it's your autobiography/memoir you get to tell the story from your point of view, and this book is definitely from Mary Jo Buttafuoco's point of view.Structurally and Technically it was a well written book and a pretty fast read too for a non-fiction book. Most of that's probably can be attributed to the 'written with' writer being pretty good. An interesting and seriously depressing story. I'm usually against the 'flash in the pan fifteen minutes of fame' books because there are so many amazing and worthwhile authors with great books who get pushed to the side when one of these 'tell-alls' has to be published.But, I'll make an exception for this book it was okay, and it's good to see that after all the crap that's been thrown at her by the end of the book she's found at least a little happiness for a bit.
    • 5/5
      This is the BEST book I have ever read about how a sociopath wrecks havoc on those around them! Mary Jo is such a strong woman! I learned alot from this book and it has helped me heal!!! If you have someone in your life that is a socipath please read this!