I'm lucky because we live out in the country so I can get outside for a break, and sometimes I go for a drive and pretend I'm not going back home - can't abandon my dogs though and have nowhere to go to, and if I took "his" truck, he would be really angry. He's been not drinking very much for a few weeks now, but hard to live with. Never violent, but often angry. Tells me I am wrong a lot, so I've stopped talking except to answer him when he talks. He seems to be playing a new game, he gets up in the middle of the daily update by our health officers, which causes the dogs to get excited and bark because they are going outside and so the ruckus interrupts the update. I think his anger could be from not drinking, but the games, winding people up, have always happened, just more often now.
I'm trying to just be polite and pleasant, and trying hard to not react.
I know it could be much worse, I lived with a violent man many years ago, and I remember that terror, my heart goes out to all who are suffering locked up with abusive partners.
