@HiImDan Said 
First off, my cousin was involved with a piece of garbage she thought she could change by marrying it. Nobody knew what was going on until she divorced it, it held a knife over their son and she figured she had enough. Her son was still a toddler at the time. She got her divorce and a restrianing order on the piece of garbage (I got the dog, poor thing was definitely abused).
Second, I had a friend named Tom who was telliing me about "this dog" who "attacked him". His wife was just laughing away while he kept showing me bruises and claw marks on various parts of his body where "this dog bit/scratched" him.
Turns out it was his wife who beat the crap out of him. Why? No reason, just felt like beating him. Evidently it was something he "just learned to live with". That marriage ended in divorce as well.
I think that this raises the important issue that it is not just women who suffer domestic violence, men do also. It can be much harder for men to report domestic violence too, what man wants to admit to having the crap beaten out of him by a woman. I know there are laws out there to protect but it's always a worry that if women/men report their partners and not much comes of it, it just makes things worse, they end up getting a good hiding for daring to seek help and bringing shame on the abuser. Get out as fast as you can the very first time a partner is violent or abusive, it never gets any better.
Mar 27, 2009 @ 16:51:34
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