Tag Archives: domestic violence shelter

The name was vacancy

It was sweet relief when I heard the word cash. A place with beds accepting cash, no card required. I knew why. The room proved the theory. We drove the panhandle to avoid Georgia. Donkey was in Georgia. Because the state is not that big when your fear is. Turning North at New Orleans we […]

I thought you said you were staying

I took the back door out the front door and left him when he went out-of-town. The kids and I left with what we needed for our stay in the domestic violence shelter. My cousin rode with us while my mom, dad, and uncle stayed back to pack our belongings into a small trailer. They […]

The evil that spewed was unexpected…Bravo, I’m off my feet

Donkey can still throw me for a complete loop. Wow! Talk about unexpected. I knew evil would spew if I went forward with trying to split the cost of the visit, but I wasn’t expecting this. I read thru the divorce and calculated only the cost of the gas. The 50/50 split is specific to […]

Happy anniversary to me (not)

Two years ago today I left Donkey’s house for a domestic violence shelter. I had already moved him out of the marital bedroom when he took the kids to Miami while I napped. Totally out. Clothes, toiletries, weapons, everything! He was gone a week so I rearranged the bedrooms to have myself in the master […]

Donkey takes the kids away from me

Next Saturday morning, 11 August, the kids go back to Donkey. This isn’t the first, the second, or the last time I will watch him drive away with innocence. The second was Mother’s Day 2012. The first was Mother’s Day 2010. Donkey had tried to have me involuntarily committed as a psycho bitch the day before. After […]

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