Laboring to Love an Abusive Mate

He threw something, swung at a friend, gets frequently angry with sales clerks and slams doors, you reason, "Well he is just upset, he will get over it."  But how many episodes like this have to keep occurring before one day he decides to blow up on you? Walking on egg shells around an angry mate, making excuses for his (or her) behavior, and telling others, "Watch what you say...don't act like this...and you know how he is..." isn't normal.  Who wants to worry over what a partner might do so often?  Evidently your mate has a problem controlling his temperament.  Now you can play the "keep the peace" game until he gets violent with you or you can opt out and seek a plan of escape.  Your choice. Read Ten Alarming Domestic Violence Statistics

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Awhile back, I posted this video and felt the need to post again.  If you are still coping with someone who is emotionally and physically draining, please listen. May God give you the spiritual guidance to deliver you from the enemy's vices so that you can experience real joy!  God bless.

Thought she had everything figured out went to church and gave a shout. Moved on with life and felt real good until something inside said, "I wish we would..." Went against all sound advice, went back to her old vice. Couldn't face the fact she failed, a new life she had derailed. Needed things to go right, wasn't ready to see the light. "If the relationship was going to make it," she reasoned, "I had best be ready and seasoned." So she decorated her lost self, made gifts like Santa's little elf. For him, she cooked, cleaned, and gleamed, while things didn't appear like what they seemed. He was happy as long as she didn't change, so she stayed in his view, his controlling range. But one day she had her own thought, she only did as she was taught. Had been to a higher institution of learning, but at times she wasn't all that discerning. Her man wasn't supportive of who she was, and all those thin