Just let him go for crying out loud!

Abusive relationships     

For the past few months, my sister has been telling everyone that her abusive ex-husband moved to Arizona.  She wound up selling everything she owns and told the family that she just needed to get away and was planning a trip to California.  She should be leaving today from what we all understand.  What I found out is that she had actually sold ALL her belongings, worked for a couple of weeks at McDonalds to earn some travel money, and is indeed going to California...where her abusive ex-husband actually lives.  She just didn't want the family to know she would be moving back in with the man who hit her and left her lying on the floor in a seizure to beat up her son then got angry with her when she came around and called 911 for herself.
     He would up doing a year in prison for that and blames her for the whole thing.  His mother lives with him as well and the last time my sister went to visit this lady, the woman slammed her head into the camper trailer door several time, then took her and her son(my nephew) a couple miles away and simply dropped them off.  They sat for hours in another state, in the cold, at a gas station after having called us for help.  Finally, her ex-husband picked her and her son up.  I simply cannot understand why a woman would choose that lifestyle when she is already free from it.  Why the Hell go back!?
     I do wish her the best of luck and under the circumstances, she's going to need it.

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