Originally Posted by
butterfly2013 
Even after my mother filed police reports, they are still together (mostly due to financial reasons because my mother currently doesn't have an income or any savings because they are very poor).
I wonder how many of us have been there. My clearest memory of my junior year in high school is of being chased through the snow, barefoot, by my father, so I could reach the neighbor's house and call the police, as he'd ripped the phones out of our own walls when my mother tried to.
Then, of sitting with a police officer, being 16, and thinking, "This guy is too young to be a cop and dealing with this." Pathetic, huh?
Like your mother, however, she was right back with him, and now, at 72, 'still thinks she's going to have a good marriage someday,' according to a friend of hers.
You're not alone. Unfortunately, I have no advice, except to say, Learn from their mistakes. It's about the best I feel I can do with what they gave me, but I have done it.
