BINDA ABUSE HAPPENS – Card #2
About 6 months have passed and things are going ok, but I know it’ll never be the same as the early days, before the violence started.
I feel like I’m ‘on watch’ a lot of the time. I never know when he’ll get angry and hurt me or frighten the kids again - I want to be prepared.
My oldest daughter Bural has been difficult lately. She refuses to do homework or jobs around the house and always back-chats. Tonight, she back-chats Sam. He sends her to her room and then starts yelling at me, saying I’m a bad mother who lets the kids run wild.
I’m upset. I say she’s just acting like him. In fact, sometimes she calls me the same names that Sam calls me. I tell Sam that I cannot take this anymore and he needs to change. Sam yells louder and slaps me on the side of my head and then punches me.