I started to fight back . I didn ’ t know what else to do . I thought he was going to kill me .
What if he found me ? What if I failed to run away ?
I started spending more time with one of my best friends . He got extremely jealous and deleted her off my phone . He told me I was never allowed to talk to her . He took away all my friends , and I was only allowed to stay at home . He even made me quit my job so that I had to rely on him to be the sole provider . I had to have dinner ready every night when he got home from work with a beer on the table already opened .
A couple months later , I finally came up with a plan to escape .
He came home early , while I was still making dinner and was upset it wasn ’ t ready even though he hadn ’ t told me he ’ d gotten off . He immediately started screaming at me and throwing things from the counter , while I kept my head down and cooked as fast as I could . He didn ’ t like that I wasn ’ t paying attention to his tantrum . He got angrier . He took a chair and slammed it onto the ground . I still didn ’ t look up . I was too afraid . I was trembling so hard I couldn ’ t speak or move . I was stunned into complete shock .
I felt the brute force of one of the chairs hitting my back , pushing my body over the oven . He grabbed my hair and started pulling me towards the bedroom . I began to cry , begging him to stop . He threw me to the ground and took the TV off of the wall . I was rolling into the foot of the bed when he broke the TV over my back . He stormed off after that , leaving me to lie in pain . As he started to storm out of the house , I yelled something I should have never said . I told him I was leaving , thinking that it ’ d make the nightmare stop , but it just made matters worse .
He began hitting me with the hot spatula I ’ d been cooking with and punching me in the face , telling me that there was no chance and that I was worthless . No man would want me .
I started to fight back . I didn ’ t know what else to do . I thought he was going to kill me .
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