MEN! July 2017. | Page 27

bad and abused me. It started when I can’t answer his phone calls anymore, he would put a code on his phone, then he started to argue for no necessary reason, then he would be disrespecting me, embarrassing me on the road and hitting me in our house. One day our son and I came home from church and I saw Phil on the bed, sitting there like he was waiting on me. He said to me “ what happen at church today? I said “ why you didn’t stop at church?” The devil went in him cause he got up quickly off the bed and come hit me in my face in front of our son, I held on to our son and sat on the bed with him and Phil grabbed my left hand to drag me off the bed with my son in my lap. I am holding my son with my right hand, I said to Phil “ you don’t see that you are dragging me off the bed with Nicholas?!” then he stopped. One day he argued with me and put me out of his house, a next day he was starting some argument and I just watch preaching on the TV to get encouragement and because I did not hear, he hit me & pushed me when I was sitting eating soup, I fell back on the chair and the plate shattered, I ran to the bathroom and locked the door. Phil banged on the door for me to open it and I 20