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goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
10/14/2006 5:49 pm

 It's amazing how when someone reaches out for help, often others [ and sometimes even professionals ] don't see the problem.


keithcancook 67M
18358 posts
10/14/2006 6:03 pm

 When I find old documents I have written, I also become reflective.

Blog On!


MothmanProphet 63M

10/14/2006 6:47 pm

 Emptiness....


VATraveler1948 75M
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10/14/2006 6:55 pm

 I'm glad that you came back with the reminder that this happened in the 1980's. I think that most of the civilized world has moved on from those days.

I took part in a three-day seminar this past week and one of the items that came up was how much society has shifted it's opinions and policies about spousal rights in the past 20 years. Here in Virginia (and many other southern states) law enforcement used to refer to many knock down, drag out fights between married couples as "he'n and she'n" and even the most brutal beatings rarely resulted in any criminal charges being filed. The laws against the physical violence have been on the books for many decades but were seldom if ever enforced when it was a marital dispute. Today, the opposite is true.


brute472 81M
3479 posts
10/15/2006 1:16 am

 The 80's were really no different to now as far as spousal abuse is concerned if some of the blogs I read are a reflection of today.
There are some women on this site that have just broken free of the so called men that have bashed and reviled them through out their marriages.
It doesn't take a man to assualt a woman, no a man shows respect and love for their partner it is just a pity that a few ruin the reputation of the many.
You are lucky in a way Polly you are one of the survivors you knew when to get out but there are still a lot of women that think that any attention is better than none and I have heard that excuse right here in the little town I live in from a battered wife.
Another great post that has made us men sit up and think.


papyrina 58F
21123 posts
10/15/2006 6:32 am

 i'm so pleased you got out of hell and into life again,big hugs

I'm a

and
i'm here to stay


Theflinkychick 113F
Ask me for a photo

10/15/2006 9:42 am

 what a fool to abuse such beauty... he never deserved you...
Not all who wander are lost.


horny4770 67M

10/16/2006 7:21 pm

 I'm glad you were able to leave that environment. My Mom stayed and put up with that crap her whole life. Somehow she thought it was her lot in life. I know of others who have put up with it for far too long... There's no excuse for that behavior...

H.


warmandsexy52 71M
13158 posts
10/21/2006 5:20 am

 It is horrific how things deteriorated that far. I can hardly imagine the horrific scenes, and part of my psyche bars me from trying to do so. Poor you!

Although it is in the past for you it remains a reality for so many women and my heart goes out to them all. I keep on thinking to myself, "In this day and age......." and hoping it wasn't so.

warm xx


redswallow777 62M
6809 posts
10/28/2006 6:49 am

 It was at this point in your tale that my sadness turned into anger for me my friend. I was angry at Quentin for the obvious reason....his physical abuse of you but also of his inability to see how his anger was ramping up. I was also very angry with the therapist for not doing something about it immediately. In the states the therapist would be required by law to report the abuse. I have such little stomach for physical or mental abuse. It just makes me want to block the blows with my body.


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