Some years ago we took care of the rental house next door for the landlord but had no input in its renting out. A young couple with a 4 YO boy moved in. Wife noticed time and again that woman had bruises and bandages here and there on her body. It became obvious that her husband was putting them there. Wife tried to talk to the woman a few times and offered her a way out but she only said, “he loves me.” Eventually the U-hauled away in the night owing 3 months rent. We cleaned out the place and found multiple fistholes in the wallboard and broken furniture and two metal garbage cans we filled with half pint and pint Johnny Walker flasks. They went up to Alabama and two years later returned to another part of town. He went home drunk one night and shot his wife in front of the little son. He is still on death row in Raiford (Florida).
How tragic.
I will never understand how women allow men to abuse them.
Back in the 70’s I had a cousin who escaped from an abusive marriage with the help of my aunt.
The husband would not allow her to go ANYWHERE. He owned his own business and the house was behind it and he monitored her every move.
Well, one day she had a doctor’s appointment (maybe I don’t know for sure or if it was an excuse) and the guy had trusted my aunt enough to let her take her and their little girl and they disappeared. They left with the clothes on their back. They couldn’t take anything because they couldn’t arouse suspicion that he would find out.
My aunt would NOT talk about where she was. Nobody knew by her. It was years before she reappeared back on the scene.
I never saw her again.