Thank you. I expect a portion of the royalties, but I collapse without warning, and silently weep in a corner, knowing they will never come, and I. AM. A. FOOL!

Lutfi. https://twitter.com/SamLutfi It drives me crazy every time I see it misspelled, which is about 40x more than I see it spelled correctly. The only reason I read articles with his name is to see if it's finally been spelled correctly, and then I fall into an existential fugue and wonder how I became the…

Zabella - I apologize for taking so long to get back to you. His ex sent me an email when he was in jail for beating her that made me think she was crazy and he was right. I was wrong, but that email was a bit crazy. It taught me that all communication from an ex-girlfriend will always be treated as though the ex…

Yes, clearly, let's blame the women for being hit, not the men for hitting them. God forbid we blame the men for being violent! That would make them, mad! And we don't want that! I'm a woman! I'd get hit! And apparently I'd deserve it!

Yo, yo yo! Bitches be cravin' drama, amiright!

Thank god, you don't have any sort of gender bias as a first responder. Because only women with children could be worth intervention. Men don't ever start abuse and then blame it on the ladies when male cops show up. I mean, that's impossible, right?

I made a burner account to comment on this because I think this is one of the small but harmful ways that abuse gets dismissed, "The larger arc of their relationship doesn't fit the typical abusive relationship." The larger arc of my relationship didn't fit the typical abusive relationship, but that didn't prevent me…