In Just Be My Baby, Michelle J. de Wildt shares the deeply moving story of a relationship that began as extraordinary and all-consuming, until a first explosive outburst shattered everything she thought she had found. What started as intense and overwhelming gradually shifted into gaslighting, blame-shifting, idealisation and withdrawal — a pattern she later recognised not as classic narcissism, but as narcissistic reflexes rooted in childhood trauma and a disorganised attachment style. Dra...

Oliver Cromwell (1599 – 1658) was an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland. Born into the middle gentry, Cromwell was relatively obscure for the first 40 years of his life. After undergoing a religious conversion in the 1630s, he became an independent puritan, taking a generally tolerant view towards the many Protestant sects of his period.

An intensely religious man—a self-styled Puritan Moses—he fervently be...

In Just Be My Baby, Michelle J. de Wildt shares the deeply moving story of a relationship that began as extraordinary and all-consuming, until a first explosive outburst shattered everything she thought she had found. What started as intense and overwhelming gradually shifted into gaslighting, blame-shifting, idealisation and withdrawal — a pattern she later recognised not as classic narcissism, but as narcissistic reflexes rooted in childhood trauma and a disorganised attachment style. Dra...