Remember to call from a safe phone. One the abuser doesn’t have access to. Even deleting a number from a call log leaves it on your bill.

Can't presume it's the husband. The local news here (general Philly area) seem to be alluding the the wife. Either way it's a tragedy.

These annihilators are perceived to be distinct, I think, from those who kill because they are suicidal but have dependents upon them that won’t survive or will suffer without the suicidal person’s care.

If I recall correctly, debt, ill health, and the imminent break-up of a relationship between parents or a marriage are the usual catalysts for family annihilation. Property is often destroyed and animals slaughtered in the process, as well. Some men who’ve survived their own self-destructive plots—who either failed to…

Family annihilators often kill pets. It’s not unusual at all. And there’s plenty of work gone into figuring out why family annihilators exist. That work is ongoing.

Bump this up

1-800-799-7233 or 1-800-787-3224 (TTY)

Shooting the dog might have something to do with not wanting their bodies to be *eaten* by said dog if it took a while for them to be discovered. I used to work in a coroner’s office. It happens.

not important

Yeah, that’s the thing needing prioritizing here.

It seems like not having access to medication for their daughter isn’t the only cause of this, but it does seem to have added to the parents’ stress. This is the fourth or fifth story I’ve read this year about a parent or spouse committing murder-suicide and there being a link to lack of healthcare for their loved one.

You don’t have to convince me. NBC’s executives are living deeply in the dark ages. They’ve watched too much Mad Men. Something.

Alternating terrible behavior with “loving and considerate” behavior is a classic hallmark of abusive relationships. Lifetime movies and other media addressing domestic abuse often unrealistically portray abusers as cartoon-villain monsters. Of course nobody would stay with someone who was nasty 100% of the time; the…

Plus the ability to rein in the anger when they realize they are starting to look bad in public- that ability to put on another face in front of other people so you don’t have the credibility when you finally do break your silence.

Calling the women cute, remarking on their looks, or their emotions, discounting their grit and determination and strength. Oh yes, this is at the bottom of the scale. Ugh.

Does any athlete in this day and age really get that much faster without doping?

They need to fire all their [men] who are still living in the 1950s.

This makes me really hate NBC.

The incident described: him berating her viciously then turning tender to bring her back, is the exact dynamic that makes abuse so dangerous and SO hard to leave. They go hand in hand.