When Love Made Me Smaller: What I Didn't Know Then

By Abagail Addison

Some stories do not end when you leave.
They end when you stop shrinking.

When Love Made Me Smaller is a deeply personal and quietly powerful memoir about survival, motherhood, and reclaiming a life that was slowly taken piece by piece.

What begins as love-familiar, hopeful, and full of promise-gradually shifts into control, fear, and isolation. Through years of emotional, psychological, and physical harm, one woman learns what it truly means to endure... and what it takes to finally break free.

This is not a story about one moment of leaving.
It is a story about staying, surviving, protecting, rebuilding-and ultimately, becoming.

Told with honesty and restraint, this memoir offers a rare look into the complexities of love, trauma, and the quiet strength it takes to choose yourself when everything around you tells you not to.

For anyone who has ever questioned their worth, their voice, or their ability to start over-

This story is for you.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GTVG8MJ9
• ISBN13: 9798253545164
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.0" x 8.0"