I don't know who to turn too

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Registered: 09-16-2003
I don't know who to turn too
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Tue, 09-27-2005 - 1:39pm
I have knowone to talk to, everyone seems to be thinking I am making a big deal of this but I thought somone on this board might be able to relate. I have two young children ages three and one is almost a year old. My husband is much larger than me and the other ight we were fighting and he threw a end table at the wall and broke it. He also refused to let my daughter come into the room, to see me when she wanted to saying it was the way I was acting.. I had just told him I didn't want dinner because I was tired and he went off. He has also screamed at my son that he hated him at his lack of sleep. he does not help out at the house and does not want to do anything with me or the kids. I am scared half to death of him and he does not understand this. His mom lives with us and both of them have threated to take my kids away from me if I leave him. I have no baby sitter if I leave him and I just started working now. My family all says I am over reacting but I really think it is starting to get very bad.
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Registered: 02-08-2005
Tue, 09-27-2005 - 2:15pm

Welcome to the board astorymom....


No you aren't overreacting.

5yrssm 
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Registered: 03-14-2005
Wed, 09-28-2005 - 9:16am

He certainly is abusive, and you're not making too much of it. We don't have to accept feeling scared all the time. That's not the way life is supposed to be. Life isn't supposed to be fear and chaos.

Trust your feelings, and think about how your children must be feeling living in this environment. If you're afraid of your husband, imagine how they must feel.

Please call the DV hotline, keep on posting here, and read all you can about abuse.