I think I can relate to what a "battered" spouse goes through.. NOT the physical pain.. But knowing things are not right. Things need to change but being afraid of what this change will mean.Knowing that if you just sit and put up with stuff that at least most of the time things are calm. Knowing that as soon as you stand up and say NO MORE. your life will change compleatly.but we are afraid about what that change will bring. The unknown. Fear of the unknown is why we stay. It may suck but this is the life we know.

sorry just thoughts running through my mind

Doc

And if I claim to be a wise man, well
It surely means that I don't know