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Abusive husband, stupid me!!

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brtblueyes

Junior Member
What is the name of your state? Arkansas

Here is my problem...I had to call the law on my husband tonight. He had been drinking(he is this way when he isn't drinking, too), we came in the house and he started yelling at my daughter(16). She had washed some clothes and it pissed him off. He was calling her a lazy bum and other nasty things. I also have another daughter (20) who had to move back here because of financial trouble. He talks to her like crap and in general treats them like crap. He calls them lazy pieces of ****. I told him that I was sick of him treating them like that and he proceeded to slap me on both sides of the head and grab my ears and hair, and shake me, and tell me to just dare to do anything about it. As the argument grew more heated, I told him to back off or I would get my gun(it stays locked in my truck glove box and I only hoped to scare him), and he said he would kill me. It being turkey season here, there were 2 guns by the door and I grabbed them and threw them in my truck bed to keep him from getting them. Next thing, I know, he has a loaded gun sighted in on me from the front door. He told me he was going to kill me. Keeping it pointed at me as walked up to the house. He also got rough with my daughter when she had the phone and was trying to call 911. In the mean time he finally layed down the gun by his chair, I tried to grab it and run and we struggled, he was trying to point it toward my daughter, so I gave in and let go. He then puts up the gun on the rack in the bedroom and leaves. My daughter is soooo upset. Although, it is the 3rd time I have had to call the law on him in the past 12 months. I called the police and he had told me that if I did, I would regret it. He is hiding, they were looking for him all night. I am new to order of protection, which is what they advised me to do. Last 2 times I called after he hit me, I was told the law had changed and they had to see him abuse me. Thank goodness it was someone different, who actually seemed to care that me and my girls are in a very abusive home. Where do I go from here? The officer left a number of a abuse shelter. I called them and they want me to come in tomorrow. I now have reason to believe he has stashed alot of money away from the income of our farm. All of a sudden, all of the bank statements have disappeared for this account. Since we married 4 yrs. ago this week, I have had the only income from a job. He quit his job like a few days before we got married. The farm is what he has been working on. It hasn't showed any profit, and I have been bank rolling it, and have co signed on loans for cattle. I also noticed, that he has put our cows up for a loan, and my name was not on it. The bank recently told me that I couldn't borrow money against our cows without his co signing! How can they loan it to him without my co signing? I really think that he has been trying to get me to leave. I don't know what he has up his sleeve. I have our income tax forms, showing that he should have some money. He has recently accused me of hiding money, and I think he got the idea himself. I will get away from him, but he is like a cat, and always ends up landing on his feet. I am pretty sure that he was only interested in my income. Nice little set up where I pay ALL the bills and he invest any money he makes back into the farm( and probably in his pocket). His parents have finaced our home, and will problably lie about us making the yearly payment. I know, I have been very stupid... I just need to what documents would be helpful in proving my case?? And how to keep him away from my girls when I am at work?? Sorry to unload, but I feel so stupid, and I don't want to make anymore mistakes... I want to at least have a chance of not losing everything. Needless to say I am scared, he has been in my life for 11 yrs. I have been through it all, watched him get away with stuff like this before. Help!!
 


brtblueyes

Junior Member
Yes of course divorce is my goal! I had to miss work today. I was up all night. When my husband grabbed my head, he busted an ear drum the doctor thinks, and I have to got to ENT doctor on next Monday because of blood in my ear. I apparently had an ear infection, and after he grabbed my ears and hair and shook me I started hearing ringing and sometimes loud and then not at all. I went to the doctor and had to get medicine. Then I went to the bank and got all the income tax money out. We have 3 accounts, his, ours and ours. He only uses this one for income tax because I refuse to let him put it in just his account. Do I need to take him off the one I use?? Although I don't plan on putting anything in there for a while. Then I went to Safe Passage, women's shelter, and put in for the order of protection. So now, I am just getting home. The doctor put me off work for another day, because I have fever. I think also to let me get things together. My next order is to find a lawyer. In between the bank and the shelter I went by the house and he was there. I camly walked in and told him he needed to leave. Then I got the same old, it was all my fault. I told him I didn't care and he still had to leave. He said that if he couldn't stay here we couldn't either. I told him I thought that would be up to the judge. Then he started faultering, and said fine he would call his lawyer, and I left and called the police again, and told them he was back. They said, they only had 12hrs to arrest him that they couldn't make it in time to my house and that I really needed to get this order of protection. Now with all my income tax papers, reciepts, and anything else that looked worth taking are in my safe deposit box. Although, his checking account statements were not here at all. No checks either. I checked last night, so I know that he had already removed them quiet some time before. I just want to cover my but while I have the chance, and make sure there is nothing else I need to prove how much I have invested in this place. Now he has taken a TV, deer head, stuffed fox, and some clothes and pictures and says he will be back to get the rest of the stuff in a few days, like the washer and dryer and his bed. So far he has taken only things that were his before we married, which you can see is a very very small amount. He will now be doing his famous, she's crazy, and I am going to get everything, she doesn't own nothing. I am going to protect my kids. No they are not babies, but they are still my kids. Don't think it isn't hard, I know how many times before I just let stuff slide. This is a ten year on going thing. I keep telling my self I will survive and get over it. I just want to get any papers before I have to leave the house and he comes in and takes stuff I might need. Can he still come here, when I am not at home if the judge gives me the order? I won't know about it until I get home and by then it will be too late. Does anyone out there know that sick feeling you get when you really think about what is going on? I am really trying to stay positive and think about the peace I will be giving myself and the kids. I think about how nice it would be not to have to try to walk on egg shells. What is so amazing, I always thought I was a strong person, but it doesn't seem so right now. It has been way over 24 hr since I had any sleep, but I just couldn't let him take everything. If anyone can help figure out what I might need to save, please let me know. Sorry for the long drawn out post. I seem to not be able to stop rambling on and on .....Thanks
 

msiron

Member
Your not stupid and rambling can be therapeutic. As you were told, get a family law attorney and possibly a therapist. It can help a great deal to ramble on to the right person. You will make it through and down the line the thought of this loser ex-husband will make you cringe and laugh. Better days will happen for you. There is always someone new down the pike.
 

upset_wisconsin

Junior Member
Been there done that trust me. Try and find a shelter or a womans crisis center in your area they can be a big help. They might be able to provide shelter for you and your kids. They sometimes can help with legal cost to. Your home is not safe obvoiulsy so go stay somewere else and if possible take all the guns with you.
 

sakwriter

Junior Member
I'm not qualified to give legal advice, but I can give human advice.

Get out now. Take everything you and your daughters can carry and go to the women's shelter. That includes money from your bank accounts (close your account entirely and take the cash, then withdraw half of any joint accounts but leave them open) and any items from your home that belong to you and are important to you. Take photo albums and any heirlooms you have. Take your tax papers, birth and marriage certificates, and any contracts that have your name on them or concern property that you have paid for. Make a list of items you and your husband own, including the cows, the house, furniture, cars, tractors, and including any money or items that you think your husband owns secretly. Put his bank account numbers on the list. Go through every room and look around carefully. Take everything you think you will regret not having a year from now, anything you are emotionally attached to. Sometimes the things that cost the least are those things that end up being very important to you in your new life. Grab that framed picture or that favorite CD. Be sure your daughters do the same.

Plan this carefully for a time when your husband is not around so that you can do it all at once. Assume you will NOT be going back to that house - you need to make a break. Walk away from that house even if you own part or all of it. Your attorney will make sure you get out any money you've put into it. Even if you change the locks on that house so your husband doesn't have a key, IT IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO STAY.

If you have cows to be taken care of, arrange for someone else to do it or assume your husband will, because that has been his work since he quit his job. You might consider taking every gun you can find and taking them to the police, not that it will prevent your husband from getting a gun if he's determined to do so.

Most women's shelters provide a place for you to live for a little while to help you on your way. Follow the advice at the shelter on getting whatever the police need, and let the shelter help you through the first steps to getting a divorce. They should be able to put you in touch with an attorney with experience in this kind of situation.

You have several important things to do: taking care of yourself and your daughters (medical help, counseling, staying together to emotionally support each other), beginning the divorce procedure, and getting yourself a job and a place to live in another town until the divorce is final. Eventually you should plan to move a long distance, across several states. While this will not stop a man really determined to pursue and abuse his ex-wife, it does put a stop to the abuse in many cases.

Something to consider: the most dangerous time for an abused wife comes when she tries to leave and divorce her husband. Take no chances. Plan everything you do ahead of time. Just when you are the most scared and sick to your stomach about this, that is the time when you have to be the strongest. This may not be a matter of getting smacked on the ear again, it may be a matter of getting a bullet in the head.

You will run into people who don't care about your situation and people who will be a big help to you. If you want somebody to ramble to, email me outside this forum at sak@charter.net.
 

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