by Loren Keeling | Dec 18, 2025 | Human Rights of Women
5 Things Every Woman Needs to Know About Her Housing Rights The threat of losing your home, especially when it comes from an ex-partner, is terrifying. It strikes at the core of your security, stability, and sense of self. For women who have endured abuse, the threat...
by Loren Keeling | Nov 17, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
Intro: When “The End” is Only the Beginning Most of us view the end of a relationship as a painful but definitive conclusion. However, a “discard” is not a normal relationship break-up. A normal break-up is a chapter closing, a period of grief...
by Loren Keeling | Oct 20, 2025 | Human Rights of Women
DVAM 2025 UK Serious Crimes Act and Spain 1/2004, comprehensive protection measures. As October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, I thought I would look at UK and Spanish laws on violence against women. It has now been five years this month that I was advised by...
by Loren Keeling | Oct 6, 2025 | Toxic Relationships
My lived experience. I now call the abrupt termination of the relationship a four-sentence discard speech. Here are the words he used to end a relationship that spanned eleven years. In fact he denied that we had a relationship. I now do not want to refer to it as a...
by Loren Keeling | Sep 29, 2025 | Human Rights of Women
The court hearing June 10th 2022, is the day of the verbal hearing in the Civil Court in Cartagena. I turn up at the court a little early. I’m wearing a long, blue, sleeveless silk dress with a long jacket to match. On entering the courthouse, there is police...
