These photos are from the night before my best friend passed away.
He didn't let me grieve, either. I laid in bed crying the first two days after he died, and Richard called me lazy and a bad mom and everything. I had to tell everyone I slipped and hit the sink. I got fired from my job because of the black eyes and bruises as well.... which made him happy because he hated me having a job. All I did was deliver pizzas. He wouldn't even let me have that.
I tried to get through nursing classes and I was doing fairly well, but he made it impossible on so many levels. I can't even get into it.
He's dumped garbage all over me, smashed plates, smashed my phone, ran me over with his car, strangled me, bruised my ribs, dislocated my shoulder, raped me, emotionally drained me....
I've gone to shelters. I've gone to my dad's. I've begged for help. Seems no one really knows what to do.... and I can't get away. He used all the money we had and now there is nothing left. The money I had saved up he needed to use for his bills, and I had to give it to him since he knew I took it from him in the first place.
This has all happened within the 8 months of him being home from Iraq.
Don't blame Iraq. He didn't face any violence there, and he was like this before he left.
He doesn't hurt the kids. The kids don't see any of this. In fact, no one does...
He has his family convinced that I am a crazy person and that I hurt HIM.
I finally got fed up recently and after he screamed at me in a mall at the top of his lungs, and left me and the girls in the parkinglot and ran off to spend his money on crap, I phoned up his commanding sergeant or whatever. I called them and told them how he lied about working when he was really AWOL from drills. They were about to have him dishonorably discharged and fined, he had me call them back at gunpoint and tell them I was crazy and had lied because I was upset about a fight.
They forgave him. Everyone pitied him for having such a terrible girlfriend who would disrespect him like that.
I don't know where to turn. I can't prove anything. He's got me, he's got me so good and I have no.way.out.
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