I dunno, Allen, I kinda think his wife may perceive a restraining order as a sign of weakness -- trying to get the law to do for him what he's unwilling to do for himself, and that's stand up for himself.
I once heard a quote from Gloria Steinham, who was lamenting modern-day feminism, and all of the workplace "sexual harrassment" laws and other such minutae. I'm paraphrasing here, but she said something like "What's wrong with these women? Screw running to a supervisor, and a judge -- just knee the guy in the b*lls and tell him if he ever does that to you again, there's more where that came from."
