Seen those fabulous pictures in the press of that TV 'cook' Nigella Lawson being strangled and physically abused by her 70yo husband Charles Saatchi. as well as being in broad daylight in central London, it spoilt our rosy illusion of the gentle, likeable TV chef.
Willingly being in an abusive relationship with a man whose track record is questionable and is not far from kicking the bucket himself makes me think 'gold digger' but this isn't Thailand and Nigella's father is pretty wealthy anyway.
A lot of women stick up for their mans violent, often drunken outbursts, putting up with the shit in the name of a relationship, where they are too scared to get out. Why is that? How have these cowardly hard men got them where they want them? Locked their passports in a safe? Balanced one set of house keys between the two of them so he can keep an eye on her?
What is to stop that woman from fleeing the home (with or without kids) when the brute is out? The chances are it's his home anyway so there's no loss there. Many woman say how much their life is hell due to abusive men but choose to stay with them, supporting them and even protecting them in court cases. Is it fickle? Stupid? Yeah I'd say so, and I'll also say myself that these women deserve it in some cases. If it's so bad, then fuck off outta there. I hate mosquitoes, but I don't sit in their nest continually complaining about it, do I?
Towards the end, my ex wife would goad me continually into hitting her. (Her Thai friend, an expert, had told her this was a way to get the flat as she'd be the victim in the divorce hearing, personally I dunno how that works) I loved it because I'd sussed her out by then.
On one occasion I shouted loudly at her to piss off and she was quickly on the phone to the cops. I'd shouted!! thus qualifying her as a victim of verbal abuse!! ''Fighting with my husband'' She told them tearfully. Gleefully thinking the cops would be straight round with the cuffs on me, she starting looking up removal companies in the Yellow Pages for moving my things out. They called back and told her to sort it herself. Back to square one, bitch.