Testimony of Healing February 24, 1992 Issue

My life was very turbulent at one time

My life was very turbulent at one time. I married a man who I believed was thoughtful, loving, and kind and then discovered he had a violent temper and easily became jealous. A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, it seemed. And he was physically abusive.

The third time he struck me was the worst. I lay on the floor with a swollen lip. In the morning I asked a friend to take me to the home of another friend. And I enrolled my little daughter in a nearby school.

Eventually the sheriff took me to talk with my husband, at his request, since it was considered unsafe for me to return to the house alone. My husband was very distraught and sorry. He promised it would never happen again, and we decided to try to work things out.

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