I’m Not A Whore

Amanda Lover : I’m Not A Whore

What happens when a woman raised inside a controlling religious cult, conditioned to believe she didn’t matter, finally decides she does?Growing up in a strict sect that dictated her every relationship, Amanda Lover had no choice but to marry a man she didn’t love at twenty years old, with no experience of the world and no roadmap to happiness. Thirteen years, two children, and a marriage she was desperate to escape later, Amanda found herself white-knuckling a steering wheel on a highway, wondering if she’d make it home alive — and not entirely sure she wanted to.
This is the story of what came next.

I’m Not a Whore is a raw, fearless, and often wickedly funny memoir about healing — the real kind. Not the Instagram kind. The kind that hurts. The kind that forces you to uproot your life, examine every broken belief you’ve ever held, and slowly, painfully, learn to love the person you find underneath it all.

From a cult childhood and a loveless marriage, to a string of hilariously disastrous dates and hard-won revelations, Amanda pulls no punches. She writes with the voice of a best friend who’s been through hell and come out the other side with wisdom, warmth, and an infectious refusal to be bitter.

By turns heartbreaking and laugh-out-loud funny, this is a book about surviving abuse, breaking cycles, and discovering — after a lifetime of being told otherwise — that you are allowed to be happy.
Because you are.

For anyone who has ever felt unseen, unloved, or unworthy — and anyone brave enough to do something about it.