Warning....this is not going to be a Pretty in Pink post....
Right now, I am feeling really deflated, disappointed, and sad.
I had just gotten off the phone with a man who relayed some bad news to me. There's no way I will talk about this with anyone in real life for obvious reasons.
Here some background.
This man's wife is really good friends with this woman who is a childhood friend (Woman A). Apparently Woman A had been in a very abusive marriage for close to 5 years and planned to leave on August 30th to move in with her two good friends for a while to get her settled and allow her to secure a place to live.
Well, that changed on Monday. She just upped and left her husband by packing her things in her car and had her dog with her in the middle of the night. Woman A shows up at this man's new house along with her dog. The problem that came up was that her dog was nipping and biting this man's young children.
After much discussion last night, I agreed to have Woman A come to my house today as I had a very nice guest room for her to use to get her settled and not have to worry about her dog harming the young children.
Well, just now...I had a very difficult convo with this man who sorrowfully informs me that Woman A just decided to return back to her abusive H who begged and begged her to come back home. He promised all sundry that he won't do this again and blah blah. And get this...H blamed his first wife for spreading false stories and lies to Woman A about him!!
That was very, very hard to hear because Woman A showed me a photo of her H out in the garage preparing a hanging noose from the rafters. He's hit her several times. Woman A told me that she spoke with his first wife...she warned Woman A that the H had knifed her in the stomach and that it was the last straw for her. Cue divorce.
Breathing deeply now.
This is so hard to process as I had prepared the guest room and was ready to support this stranger, Woman A, to begin her life anew in a completely new place and a different state.
F@ck, f*ck those abusive bastards!!!!!!! This is when I feel the gallows should be reinstated as a punishment for these depraved folks.
I am worried sick that she'll end up dead soon and that her childhood friend will be attending her funeral. This has completely knocked the wind out of me.
