I talked briefly to my sister today. We both have busy lives so we only talk a couple of times a year these past couple of years. She told me that she and her "husband" are separating. They never really got married but lived together and presented themselves as married, purchased property and businesses together for the past 28 years. I think in tennessee that means legally they are married, but not sure. her comment that got to me is that she hopes she gets out of this alive. Her husband has a jealous streak and a paranoid streak and apparently it has been getting worse to the point where he is checking her cell phone #s stopping in at all hours to check on her at the bar, taping her phone conversations, etc.
And it is finaly enough. For as long as I can remember he has been abusive. She had a child, she loved him, she had nothing else to go to except a minimum wage job in a factory, etc. So in all those years she worked like a dog 6 and 7 days a week building up several businesses. On more than one occasion doctors told her that he was at death's door because of his drinking and she always nursed him back to health. And HE is deciding now that they are separating what he will give her. He might even let her continue to run the bar and let her keep half the profits. She should have let him die.
I pray that she gets out of this alive and that he goes on one of his drinking binges that his doctors warned him not to do again while he is alone....
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