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Distraction & Manipulation

My husband accused our son of drinking Jack Daniels, but wanted to do nothing about it. I sense an ulterior motive to distract me from his abuse of me.

My husband accused our son of drinking Jack Daniels, but wanted to do nothing about it. I sense an ulterior motive to distract me from his abuse of me.On a side note and just for the record, Will brought home a bottle of Jack Daniel’s in his suitcase. He started drinking from it, and then on Saturday morning, he asked me if I had drunk any of the whiskey (I hadn’t) and said that it must have been Marc who drunk it.

I asked Marc who said that he didn’t even know there was JD in the house. So my questions are: Did Will drink it and forget? Did Marc lie? and most menacingly, If Will drank it and remembered drinking it, why did he say that Marc drank it? And if he thought Marc drank it, why didn’t he (or we) handle it?

That is manipulation, plain and simple. He asked me that question and implicated Marc but then did nothing about it because the purpose of the question wasn’t to find an answer. The purpose was to instill doubt in me, raise questions in me, keep me occupied with something else while he planned his next move.

Distraction.


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