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Hate-Hate Relationship

I tried to learn how to NOT respond to Will's verbal abuse and nasty behavior, but sitting there and taking it was a response. He liked it, I think.

Note from 2010: Sometimes all I could do when he raged was sit still and not say a word. I tried to learn how to NOT respond to Will’s verbal abuse and nasty behavior, but sitting there and taking it was a response. He liked it, I think.

I told myself that he was learning how to live without alcohol.

I don’t remember what was happening or what he was going on about when I wrote this simple sentence. All I know is that I didn’t want to say this out loud to him.