While I appreciate your follow-up post, your answer is similar to that of the Lt. I made my charge to.
Yes I could have simply answered the question. However, in my original post I made it pretty clear that I didn't want to give the details out for personal reasons (I obviously have a pretty rough enemy out there).
So while I could have simply spilled my guts and told you details I really wasn't interested in sharing, you too could have taken the hint and not asked me a question I wasn't interested in answering.
I "caught" an attitude because you immediately took the conversation to a place "assaulted/molested wife or children" to a place where I was pretty much FORCED to let you invade my privacy or to allow the horrible question to linger. (Did he hide the real ugly truth that he is an abuser or molester?) I reacted to your immediate race to the lowest common denominator. You could have just taking my post at face value, believed it or not believed it as I prompted, and NOT used an inflammatory suggestion to forcibly invade my privacy.
Does that make any sense?
Why are you no longer a lawyer? Was it your choice? How does one stop being a lawyer?