These Shoes Don't Fit!

A novel that explores the dark side of love and sociopathy - A gripping True Story

It’s a Rodramedy

Romance, Drama, and Comedy

Without being aware, he sensed my need/desire my hunger for love. Armed with that information, he planned, plotted and played me. He almost broke me(mentally). He was young, energetic, and playful. I was over-age and overweight. The only thing I loved about me were my children. He knew. No way to hide my flaws. Zero self-worth, zero self-esteem, zero self-confidence. He said marry me. I said yes.

He loved me, he controlled me, he manipulated me, he came so close to destroying me. He was a sociopath. I didn’t see it coming. No way. So much love, so much care, so much joy. I didn’t want to believe it. NO! I jeopardized my relationship with my children, with my family, with my friends. He didn’t care. He laughed and made fun of the pain he was now, as my husband, inflicting on me.

After years of mental torture, on an ordinary day, I took a long hard look in the mirror (refusing to blink) and decided I had had enough. Soon everything changed. It did. It really did! I saw me. He transformed me and started feeling love for me that I didn’t know could exist.

I married a man 19 years younger than me. What I believed was a passionate romance slowly revealed itself to be something far more disturbing.

This book is my true story—about manipulation, sociopathy, and how easily love can become psychological control.

I’m sharing it because I know I’m not the only one who’s lived through something like this.

The Author Speaks

I wrote “These Shoes Don’t Fit” because silence protects the wrong people. This book exists to expose how manipulation hides inside love, how charm becomes control, and how easily warning signs are rewritten as hope. I wrote it for anyone who’s ever questioned their reality—and blamed themselves for it.

These Shoes Don’t Fit is not a love story—it’s a reckoning. Written from inside a marriage where desire blurred into control and intimacy became a weapon, this book exposes what happens when manipulation wears the mask of devotion. It’s for anyone who has ever ignored their instincts, shrunk themselves to keep the peace, or questioned their sanity in the presence of someone who needed their silence to survive. This is not a cautionary tale told from a safe distance; it’s a woman walking herself out of the lie and reclaiming her power in real time. If you’ve ever felt trapped in something that looked beautiful but felt deadly, this book will name what you couldn’t—and remind you that leaving is not failure, it’s authority.

~ Alfreda (Avognon) Scott