SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE

I am watching a movie right now called "Black and Blue". It is about an abused wife; her husband is a cop. You know what? This brings back very real and painful memories for me. I had a "room mate" who was a nurse and I had known him for years, but not well enough. However, he became abusive toward me and I should have left when he first started, but didn't. Six months later he beat the living daylights out of me and tried to kill me in my own kitchen. I was a psych nurse at that time and didn't really know what dissociative episodes were like, except that the patients had them. I found out exactly what they were going through. Sometimes that feeling comes over me and it is hard to ignore. I hope that any woman that experiences abuse from any man will find help! I did some volunteer work for the Victims Services/Rape Crisis, so that helped, but I still have some really bad memories from it. It has been 10 years now and still the memory is very fresh. Ladies, if you or any of your friends are going through this, please, I beg of you, get some help! You are not alone and the laws are better now. This man didn't get in any trouble; the grand jury "no billed" it, due to lack of evidence, they claimed. Would he have had to kill me to get the punishment he deserved?