Abuser attempted suicide- help!
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| Wed, 01-05-2005 - 1:48am |
I posted this on the domestic abuse support forum also, before I found this one.
Help please!!!! My husband has been abusive for the past year, but only physically abusive once. He choked me several times one night and I left the next morning. I'm in another state, and can't get a restraining order from my state or his state until he comes where I am or I go back for my car/clothes/etc. He's been harassing me daily since I left right before christmas, he keeps apologizing - but he's still making threats to destroy everything I own and to "make a road trip" to where I am and threatened to kill himself if I didn't "come home". He's active duty military and his command knows about everything, but they couldn't force him to get a psych evaluation if he told them he wouldn't kill himself. Last night he slit his wrists and called me this morning from the hospital. I don't know what to do!!! I feel so bad, like it is somehow my fault; but then I also feel angry at him because I think he might just be trying to get me to come back. He required less than 15 stitches on each arm. I think that means he cut "across" and not the long way (which I think shows that it's more of a cry for attention/help than an actual attempt to end his life, plus he called the ambulance himself). Anyone else been in this situation or know of any resources? Please help!

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Hey lady -
Civil litigation is something that isn't often thought of in abuse cases, but we actually had a poster who filed a civil suit against her XH and she won.
CL-Blueliner4
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