Replies to '07/16 Bully Husband'

I don't know how many of you have lived in this kind of situation, but if you ever had, you would know that it isn't so easy to just walk away.....Kids or no kids!!!!  You loose all self esteem, because you are belittled so often.  You doubt your every move, and you HONESTLY start believing the things that he tells you about yourself that you would have never believed before.  I lived with a husband that talked to me like I was this horrible creature, but before we were married I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.  On our honeymoon, he told me that I needed to loose weight.  I am 5'5" and at the time I weighed 120 pounds.  For my height and bone structure, that was too small.  I was sunk in on my chest and my face looked years older because there was no meat on my bones.  The more he told me this the more I believed him, and like this lady, I would go into another room to eat because I was afraid that he would see me eat something.  I finally got up enough nerve to leave him, but that was two years and a baby later.  I had become bulimic, and it took me ten  years to finally get control of that.  I am now married to a wonderful man, that my ex-husband told me I would never find, and my daughter is very healthy and happy.  You can't judge this woman for staying with someone, because she's endured it for so long, she actually believes it.