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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only thing you should be ashamed about is that you reference graduating from high school as if that's impressive  when you have post-grad degrees. Which is irrelevant - people of all stations in life get abused, OP. A degree does not keep someone from having a temper or being at the wrath of someone else's temper. [/quote]

This is OP. I was typing very quickly as I was late to pick up my children, and did not express/elaborate on my thought very well. The incident that happened is something that I have seen on TV but have never experienced. Intellectually, I know that people from all walks of life can be involved in abusive relationships. I have simply never seen or experienced it anywhere outside of this relationship. I feel like I should have the inner strength to have prevented allowing the situation (and when I say situation, I mean the cumulative events of the marriage) to escalate to the most recent breaking point. At the moment, I felt like my life had degenerated into an episode of COPS or Jerry Springer. I brought up the high school because I attended an all-girls school where women were pushed to excel and where I did excel. I can't imagine any of my former classmates allowing something like this to happen to them. Maybe it has and I don't know. Maybe others are as good as putting up the front that I have put up for years to hide what was happening from others and from myself. [/quote]

This is exactly your problem OP and you still don't get it. What school you attended or what degrees you accumulated has zilch to do with providing you this inner strength that you think people on COPS or Jerry Springer don't have because of their what...non IV League-degreed...upbringing? You seem to be hiding behind that "I'm too good/cool for this shit" facade and I fear that is exactly why you have remained in this situation for so long.   Get off the horse and stop putting up the fake front. [/quote]

This.  Get off your high horse for your kids' sake.  Do you really want them raised in this environment?  Honestly, I'm wondering her husband's side of this.  I would never excuse the almost hitting her, the threatening, and the breaking the phone (and if I were here I would have been contacting a divorce attorney the next morning) but OP's attitude is seriously making me wonder if she's all perfect in the marriage or if the abuse goes both ways.  [/quote]

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