Post by Alena on Mar 26, 2014 20:31:30 GMT
Hi everyone,
I wrote a while back about my friend who is in an abusive relationship. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few weeks ago and her boyfriend refuses to believe it's real. He was calling her a drama queen. Well, she's on a prescription painkiller and she ran out yesterday. She told him and asked for the keys to go to the pharmacy. He told her he'd take her when he was finished doing whatever he was doing. Three hours later, she was in a lot of pain and he was still making excuses not to go, so she took the keys when he wasn't looking and went to the pharmacy herself. When she got back, he whipped her, with a belt. They had been involved in some "kinky" sort of stuff, but it ceased to be consentual a long time ago. She stays because he's threatened to tell her very religious mother about it and she's afraid of what her mother would think. She came to my house last night, black and blue. I begged her not to go back, told her I'd call the police, but she pleaded with me not to. He was calling her nonstop, and after about the 15th time, she called him back. He told her that he wanted her to come back. He promised he wouldn't touch her again and that he was sorry. I told her, please don't believe it. You know he'll do it again. But she went back. She said she knows she needs to leave but she isn't ready to face it. She's been saying that for a long time and I'm afraid she'll never be ready. I'm just sick. I let her go. Because what was I supposed to do? Physically restrain her? And last time I got too insistent, she cut me out of her life. I don't want to risk that happening again,. But then, I feel guilty for not doing anything. I feel totally useless.
I wrote a while back about my friend who is in an abusive relationship. She was diagnosed with fibromyalgia a few weeks ago and her boyfriend refuses to believe it's real. He was calling her a drama queen. Well, she's on a prescription painkiller and she ran out yesterday. She told him and asked for the keys to go to the pharmacy. He told her he'd take her when he was finished doing whatever he was doing. Three hours later, she was in a lot of pain and he was still making excuses not to go, so she took the keys when he wasn't looking and went to the pharmacy herself. When she got back, he whipped her, with a belt. They had been involved in some "kinky" sort of stuff, but it ceased to be consentual a long time ago. She stays because he's threatened to tell her very religious mother about it and she's afraid of what her mother would think. She came to my house last night, black and blue. I begged her not to go back, told her I'd call the police, but she pleaded with me not to. He was calling her nonstop, and after about the 15th time, she called him back. He told her that he wanted her to come back. He promised he wouldn't touch her again and that he was sorry. I told her, please don't believe it. You know he'll do it again. But she went back. She said she knows she needs to leave but she isn't ready to face it. She's been saying that for a long time and I'm afraid she'll never be ready. I'm just sick. I let her go. Because what was I supposed to do? Physically restrain her? And last time I got too insistent, she cut me out of her life. I don't want to risk that happening again,. But then, I feel guilty for not doing anything. I feel totally useless.