I am a senior of 68 years and I have raised three children by myself. The twenty-two years we were married it was a fist in my face or a belt across my back at least once or twice a week. I decided to get out of there when he tried to make me think I had no value or the sense to support myself. That was kind of funny because when we got married I was the one working. In the years to come I was able to help my youngest daughter to keep up her schooling to get her teaching credentials for several special types of education and make sure she had a place to live a car to drive and a computer. Oh yeah he cleaned out our bank account from my paychecks while he sat home doing leather work. I ended up paying off the debts he piled up and it took me 20 years, but I got them paid off. He never once helped even after the courts told him to pay child support, he didn't pay a dime. He even sold my car after he gave me one of the four we had.
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