Reply #24

I was a very young college student and he was about 10 years older than me. After I graduated and got my first real job, he became more and more controlling. He had abused me. He was mentally and verbally as well as physically abusive. I was planning on leaving him. I'd taken important papers to work for safekeeping. I was so naive and young that I was really unaware of what spousal abuse was until it was too late.

Needless to say, marrying him was the BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE. I'm lucky to still be here.

He was from a "good" family. He had two bachelors and a masters degree and a position with a major research university. You never know who might flip out. He was, as it turns out, insanely jealous.

There was a university professor in my town who freaked out and killed his ex-wife and two others a few years ago. He escaped and there was a manhunt. The authorities eventually found him dead of self-inflicted gun shot wounds. Their two children were left orphaned. It was an incredibly sad and awful event.