Totally. I’d add women, abused women, ‘foreign’ women, and especially abused foreign women to your list of things courts don’t care about.

I can only speak for myself, but the ways in which abusive men hide and then slowly reveal themselves is a horrific art form. In my experience, they were all polite, chivalrous, fun to be around... the perfect guy. Very, VERY slowly it erodes. They test boundaries, physical or mental, with comments passed off as…

This case just fills me with rage. I’m usually so good at not replying to trolls and I ended up replying to one because this is very emotional for me as a survivor of DV but also because I currently know someone in a very similar case. She did not flee, she stayed because her relatives back in Mexico told her she was…

Translation: “Charlton is an abusive sack of rotting dicks, but as he’s paying me and I can’t technically lie, let’s just start arguing about the definition of the word abuse.”

My friends who have been victims of DV must be lying then. Let me go and tell them that what happened to them is absolutely not true. That cop did not just tell your husband to take a break...this is all in your head.

Often people who have had abusive or authoritarian parents seek out relationships that perpetuate that pattern. It’s the only familiar relationship dynamic they understand. People stick with what they know.

I’m pretty sure it means “there was totally abuse but we don’t want to say that there was abuse so we’re going to say that sometimes abuse doesn’t really count because of reasons.”

I got the impression that he was trying to justify her prosecution by painting her as having overreacted. I mean he only choked her and slammed her against a wall once, what’s the big deal?!

Charlton’s attorney Preston Morgan said, “It depends on how you use the term abusive. There may be abuse in a relationship. There may have been circumstances surrounding it that may not be indicative of an abusive relationship. That’s not to undermine any physicality, and how it’s inappropriate in any circumstance,…

He sounds pretty awful from this story.

I know this man. He is a violent drunk, racist, and an all around awful person. He is not fit for children.

You know what? This is actually a fair criticism. I’ve changed the headline and the lede to reflect that. I’ve also added an update to explain the change.

I loved this story. I was so happy that it was a stand alone because it deserved to be and because I didn’t have to spread my appreciation across multiple accounts. I’d rather be picking boof fallowing from my teeth than picking apart the logic behind Josh’s actions. *BURP*

I would like to send an order of the crap dip to the table over there. The one with the lady that’s allergic to crunchy and the man that doesn’t know what scrambled eggs are.

There’s no way that it would take more time to have him point at a line of text on a menu than to get two managers involved to eventually decide on and approve the plan Josh came up with.

Nicki looks better in that outfit than most—the top is almost cute on her. The shorts belong in a meat market style gym in 1988.

That Meek photo is the saddest pic. He found a way to look pathetic in a Maybach.

I wish a man would be “unsure” if I am his girlfriend with a $500K ring.

My boyfriend's family is Latin American. His mother never worked after she was married; her entire life is her two sons. After college, she expected my boyfriend to move back in with them until he got married and he obliged until he was 27 years old. Her other son still lives with them.