Reply #52: Yes, it started with emotional abuse for the most part [View All]

Then, when I started to resist his control and took it away from him, he turned violent on me. For a few months before the break-up, when he'd start his paranoid rantings and was determined to fight endlessly, I would flee... take my daughter and just leave, go to a motel or to my mother's house if she were in town, and wait out the storm. I finally had enough of dragging my child out, usually in the middle of the night, and having to leave my home and, the next time he started up, I simply refused to engage him and also made it clear that I was NOT leaving my home. That's when I got punched.... I guess he realized that his control over me was slipping and he couldn't handle it.

I hope that, one day, you can finally get rid of your ex altogether, just as I hope to do with mine :hug: