KarmaSue Denham writes, "I once slipped out of work two hours early without the boss noticing. In my hurry to make the most of this petty victory, I knocked myself out on the car door and spent the rest of the day semi-conscious, bowking rich brown vomit over my one and only suit."
Have you been visited by the forces of Karma, or watched it happen to other people?
Thanks to Pooflake for the suggestion
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chthonic, Thu 21 Feb 2008, 14:24)
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Blimey.I hope karma came back to bite him in the arse.
People say that battered wives are weak. I beg to differ; it takes a lot of strength to put up with this sort of thing on a daily basis, but even more to leave and still have the peanuts about you to successfully start your life again.
I had a colleague who, after years of abuse, only left her husband after he took a nail gun to her head. Fekking hell, she had it far worse than I ever did. So did your aunt.
It is shocking how often it happens - the number of times my story has slipped out (I generally don't let it, it is too 'heavy' and 'dark' for most) and a passer-by, a friend a relative relays their own tale of abuse is shocking.
And the thing is, when you're beaten, you can easily blame the other person for it. I never once thought it was my fault, that I ever did anything wrong. Words can be those things that destroy your life. Abuse comes in all forms; emotional abuse, to me, is far more sinister.
Also, the police force is disgusting in their attitude towards marriage / relationship rape. Just because you have consented previously doesn't mean that you consented at that violent point.
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