The Bird Show.

I remember a couple of weeks ago on the show, things got pretty serious.

We were talking about Chris Brown and we were talking about Rihanna and it launched into

a conversation about domestic abuse and violence and as coincidence would have it, Jen and I hosted

an event for Jaden's Ladder the night before.

So we were really talking a lot about domestic abuse and violence.

And a virtual listener called up and said that she's in the situation, had no idea how to get out of it.

I'm actually in an abusive relationship right now, and I can't tell you how many times that I've actually left and come back and left and come back.

And I tell myself, you know, that he's going to change.

Things are going to get better.

But, you know, they don't get better, and he doesn't change. And, you know, when you love somebody, you just, you know, you want that person to change

and things to be great because you do love that person.

Is he physically abusive with you?

Yeah, he's physically and mentally abusive to me.

And I can't remember specifically how long they've been together, but I think it was like 11 years.

They've known each other.

Long enough for her to have tried to leave several times you know

she talked about how her family had started to alienate her because she kept going back and they were

they just kind of tossed their hands up they didn't know what to do and it was getting pretty graphic like

she would tell us like she didn't know what kind of mood he was going to be in as soon as he opened the door

from work and she was sitting on the couch

or something then bam you know out of nowhere yeah no friends to call nothing she didn't have

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