Lara Sabanosh - Living under the veil of domestic violence
Lara Sabanosh grew up in various parts of the country and for a time, lived overseas in Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), where she was an education service facilitator at the Fleet and Family Support Center and became acting director in December 2013. She spent much of her adult life as a wife, mother and student, eventually completing two doctoral degrees.
In January 2015, Lara came to international attention when her husband Christopher Tur, a civilian worker at Guantanamo Bay’s Naval Base, went missing. His body was found two days later and Lara was left to deal with the aftermath of what took place at the time, and the events leading up to that moment. This forced her to examine more than twenty years of abuse and the denial and deceits that occur in all households subjected to domestic violence.
Her book, Caged, is an honest and introspective memoir detailing the other side of an international, headline story, taking readers through the first twenty years of her tumultuous marriage to Christopher Tur, to events as she lived them on the night he went missing and the aftermath. She is now retired from government service, and lives in Pensacola, Florida. In this podcast:
Lara talks about how the stronger the ties to her husband became, the more she lost herself
Why she stayed in an abusive relationship
Why domestic violence is not a new issue in the military
You can find out more about Lara and her book Caged at www.LaraSabanosh.com
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