Jody's POV
I lived in a violent marriage for years. I was very naive at first and didn't know people like him existed. He would kick me, slap me, push me, trip me over, throw things at me, stand on my feet, yell abuse, call me names like ‘social cripple’, the list goes on and on, but he never punched me.
He would say to people that he couldn't stand ‘wife bashers’. He would tell me that he didn’t want the children to play with so and so children because they were a bad influence.
He tried to isolate us from all those who loved us and new people we met would go through character assassinations by him.
Life was continuous hell, fear, and horror and he always blamed the children or me for his violence.
Things got a lot worse towards the end. He would threaten to run us all off the road i
