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I'm not sure how to comment on this but, is diffent though but good too!
Richard
A Day in a Life?
Hi Kristina,
I really like virtually everything you have put up here on BCTS.
This is a lovely, truthful snapshot of how life really is sometimes.
I know these two people. We here on BCTS probably all know people like your protaganists here.
A picture brought to life. Wonderful stuff.
Kindest regards
Kate
Kate
We Know It Will End In Tears
If not something much worse. You have really captured the battered spouse syndrome....doesn't matter about the gender. The women who make excuses for the men who they think "love" them and use them as punching bags. It's universal, it seems. Why, oh, why can't they see that they're hanging on to a piece of shit. The cops know, but cannot do anything without a complaint.
Having said that, it's a sad and powerful story and well up to Kristina standards...our all-too-seldom Queen of the quirky and emotional.
What a pity she couldn't take the dolphins and the whales home for protection. But that would be a felony...."interfering with a migrating whale...."
Send more Kristina,
Joanne
Tears
Yes it may well end up that way but everyone makes their choices don't they. Maybe I should send more whales. I do try to make things real and part of a world I can recognise if not always admire. There is always beauty somewhere though I think. Ritchie, Kate, Jo, thanks for the comments, always appreciated.
Kristina
The sad thing....
....you could drop any hint or reference to her 'status' and it wouldn't make a damn bit of difference. My cousin went into court with a photo of herself looking like she'd gone eight rounds with Ali and left arm in arm with her abusive husband. "What other chance does someone like me have at a relationship." It's exactly what Joanne said about ending in tears. As you say, real and recognizable. Thank you, Kristina.
Love, Andrea Lena
Unfortunate....
....Unfortunate, because if she doesn't press charges she's giving him permission to do it again. Unfortunate, because he will. Unfortunate, because she can't see that maybe, just maybe, if the relationship was salvageable it would have been done by her saying I'm a person and you can't do this to me. All she's done is say she's a punching bag for his frustrations and emotions. Unfortunate, because she's accepting that she is less than she is.
Where I live the police don't need a woman to press charges. They can go ahead without her help, based solely on physical evidence.
One can only hope she learns before things escalate and it becomes too late. Mental abuse is just as devastating. I've known several women who had controlling husbands that nearly destroyed them as people. One of them being my own aunt. The man got his jollies out of messing up his wife and his two son's minds.
Abuse is abuse, it should never be tolerated on any level. At the first sign of trouble get out or get help, because it only gets worse from there unless you do something right then and there to stop it.
Sorry. A sore point for me.
As always, Kristina, a very good story. I hope there is more from your pen, er um, keyboard to come in the near future.
Arwen
Crap day at work
Just as crap at home, but then I see a little piece by one of my favourite writers, and I read it, and I am reminded that I might have crap, but I don't have REAL shit, and I am not in hell...
Flaw in the Logic
This was good - hard hitting but good. I just wish she'd realize that she's not in a real relationship, not a healthy one anyway. How often does the ape have to beat his girlfriend before she realizes she needs to leave? So sad.
Thanks and kudos.
- Terry
" What other chance does someone like me have ?"
Ah, its true, and it hurts.
I struggle a little...
... I will admit to understand such situations or relationships if that is a fair word to use. Part of this is personal experience, but the over arching situation is not. I found writing it not that tough, sort of like squinting a little as you watch something uncomfortable on telly. I tried to imagine the rationale and I think it comes down to levels of self evaluation and self worth. Dollops of need and desire... to be seen as normal, part of things rather than apart. To be needed or wanted or at least feel that you are. Sigh, I suspect many of us can identify on some level with that.
Not tough but I do hope I did it justice in a minimalist sort of way. Drea, Arwen, Steph, Terry, Dorothy, thank you for commenting. Fair recompense, curtseys.
Kristina
It's a great story Kristina!
I think we all need to be reminded of the low life that exists out there and those that don't have any choice but to accept morcels thrown at them or some small kindness or maybe a glimmer of hope that life may get better.
It rarely does for them.
We must, all who can, when we see or hear about someone in this downwards spiral assist and give them any support we can muster.
I find it hard to believe that our so called christian society in general cannot accept this responsibility but generally condones the sins of the clergy against chidren, to name but one of many.
Anyway, I know you said it's fiction but thanks for the kick in the butt.
Age is an issue of mind over matter.
If you don't mind, it doesn't matter!
(Mark Twain)
LoL
Rita
yes indeed
There are lowlifes out there and all we can do is in one way or another stand and face them. Thanks Rita
Kristina
Lowlives
I have just posted...that part of one of my current stories, and I can only agree with that statement. I have run away too often and too long, and it is such a temptation to let them win, accept their worldview.
Oh yes
It is tempting and perhaps for a time you can let them have their way. Hesitate before going out or coming back, check and wait and.... of course it gives them power and ultimately you have to stand or they win. I have walked away and I have paused, it can rule you if you let it. Not easy at all, yet what choice... support at some level is the crucial point, alone you lose.
Kristina
Exactly
That is why, when I write, I emphasise family and friendship so much.
Sadistic And Cruel
His anger was not just a spur-of-the-moment occurrence. It was premeditated and contrived and will not be the last time.
Better to be alone and alive rather than together and crippled or dead,
Annalise
I tend to agree
He's using his just hidden prejudices to prosecute his own fears and insecurities using someone he considers weaker. He may be right, but just maybe it will turn around and bite him, here's hoping. Thanks Annalise.
Kristina
Thank you, Kristina.
That was a sad read, but a good read. It touched a nerve, which to me indicates a great story telling ability .
All too many women (whether GG, or TS) have gone through that. I'm sure my mother had similar thoughts a few times, when I was a little kid. I'm not sure what her internal justification was, but it probably made sense to her at the time. Sad, really. Thankfully, she pulled herself out of it, and married a good man.
O.K.
P.S. - don't some provinces / states have laws that say if police are called to a domestic violence scene, the perp spends some time in jail, no matter what?
Why thank you O.K.
To be honest I am not entirely sure of the legal possibilities. I think the cops could go ahead and prosecute if they felt it warranted. But holding someone in a cell would I believe be limited to some hours before they had to be bailed. Lacking the primary witness and with limited resources and so on most of the time they would shake their heads, shrug and carry on. Till the next time. I have had some experience of the situations cops face and the frustrations they deal with day in day out. It is not a job for the faint hearted.
Kristina