Hi, I'm Caitlin Van Moll, host of I Survived. We're really proud of this show, and hope by relaunching, we're going to find new audiences for these stories we think are so important.

These are obviously very rough stories to listen to. But what I remember most about interviewing Terry is that she had these great one-liners she would deliver in her amazing Wisconsin accent.

I now say, this isn't the magazines,

just like Terry did, when I want to make an excuse for not being fancy. And what this shows me

is that even when you're describing the worst thing that has happened to you, you can still find

some levity. This is episode five. I could feel the snow all around me. This episode contains descriptions of assault.

Listener discretion is advised. And also just to note about this episode, we interviewed Terry over

Skype, so in parts of her story, you might hear some birds or a dog in the background.

You know, you can't stand somebody divorced divorce them. You don't kill them.

Terry Jindusa and David Larson met in college. They lived in the same dorm and ran in the same

circle of friends. But that's all they were back then, just friends.

It was about maybe 10 years after that that we started dating. We were older,

you know, both kind of looking to settle down and get married. Yep, looking back, I recognized

signs of his temper, but he always displayed them to other people, you know, say like, you know,

the girl behind the register at the store or, you know, the girl behind the register at the store, or, you know,

the construction worker on the road when they diverted the traffic, you know, things like that.

So I saw it then.

I didn't like it then.

But I think I told myself, well, you know, he wouldn't treat me like that.

But while planning their wedding, she got a glimpse of his need to control things.

Usually the girls, like, you know, I want this color, I want these flowers.

He was very controlling with all that stuff to the point where my parents,

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