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In reply to the discussion: If a woman is hitting me....I still won't hit her. [View all]skypilot
(8,884 posts)I was 14 years old and she was my foster mother. This happened after YEARS of abuse at her hands from the time I was 3 up until the day I hit her. If any of you has ever seen the movie "Precious", the mother in that movie was my foster mother to a tee. The only difference was that I didn't suffer any sexual abuse and she didn't make me cook. Actually, I didn't just hit her...I wailed on her. She had just punched me in the back. The fact that she was a woman just didn't factor in, she was simply the person who'd been making my life miserable for years. I barely considered her a human let alone a woman. She was THAT awful. When I was 3 she once kicked me in the head, when I was 9 she once told me that she wouldn't care if I dropped dead and on April 11, 1979 she punched me. I was determined to make sure that it was the last time--and it was. I was removed from her home that night and that chapter of my life was finally over. Hitting her is not something that I'm proud of but it is also not something that I regret.
I've never hit another woman in my life but no force on earth could have stopped me from hitting that particular woman on that particular night after all I'd been through at her hands.