[twigs]

Why don't all abused (seriously abused) women just kill their husbands? It is wrong to kill another human being and these people are being psychologically manipulated. You don't even have to be a child like Shawn to have it happen.

[TXnMA]

Not condemning -- just trying to understand. With the means to escape obviously at hand, it seems that some other factor was keeping him in a situation that we, as adults, would deem to be intolerable.

Please don't confuse analysis with condemnation...