Reply #3: Another abuser "under the radar" [View All]

[ismnotwasm]

God. I work with a nurse who is divorced, but has a constant battle for child support from her ex, but more concerning is this;

I asked her flat out if he was, abusive. Her answer? "Not really, he would physically intimidate me, pushed me, called me names things like that (I didn't ask for clarification of "like that") In other words, because he wasn't beating her bloody, it wasn't abuse. The details of the money fights themselves sound abusive to me

I threw a dramatic verbal fit for her, on purpose, just to give her permission to call it abuse. (I'm a former street kid living in a middle class world, so I can do dramatic and get away with it, usually. And communicating with these civilized women is one of the reason I hold on to my extensive potty mouth--there are those who find it freeing ;-) )