Do you ever feel that if it wasn't for you, your partner's life would be perfect? Is this not what you have been "told" often enough. When was the last time you were body checked into the wall? His response? "You were standing in his way, again, you !::!::!" As a survivor of spousal abuse, I empathize. You must find the strength to protect yourselves, and your children, who are also being traumatized. You know it is time to go--for the body checking has just become the daily routine, and there is so much more...when do you think he may go over the edge? Newspaper headline reads: woman miscalculated, dead now, children will be put up for adoption. Throughout time women had been thought of as an inferior breed. I 'm not sure that society has yet realized that women have great strength in their numbers, but their weakness is the 'society made-gender biased' man in power. Women follow suit, to gain acceptance. There will be little change if society does not change its view on women, and on men's code of conduct..
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