Well, unless you've been shutting yourself off from the news, you've heard about the domestic abuse battering against singer Rihanna by singer Chris Brown, as they drove away in a rented Lamborghini from a pre-Grammy party in February.
Donald Trump said Rihanna had "better get the hell out."
'Project Runway' winner Christian Siriano stated that ". . . there has to be something that she did to provoke it."
There seems to some reporting that perhaps Rihanna landed the first blows on Chris, after reading a text message from his manager, asking to meet him later in the evening.
Now, perhaps her blows didn't equal the knock-out slugs of Chris, plus the biting and strangling almost to the point of unconsciouslness -- but what's up here?
What are your thoughts about this? Has your partner instigated violence with you? How did you handle it? Let us know in the Comments section below.
My ex was an athlete in school, who muscled up, and then, got fat. She got me in a choke hold from behind. She outweighted me by twenty pounds (I was never athletic) and started to cut off my air.
I broke free with an elbow to her ribs. Than I ran like hell. Guess which side the police accused of "domestic violence!"
Posted by: johnnydawson | February 13, 2011 at 11:15 PM
Hello, John --
This is a problem that still sems prevalent in our country. Current statistics from the CDC (Centers of Disease Control) have shown that 30 percent of domestic violence is female to male.
Yet many police officers still think that only men are the abusers.
The good news is that many areas of law enforcement are beginning to train their personnel to do more problem solving at the scene of DV. They question to find out who started the physical fight, who threw the first punch, so to speak.
In many cases, the woman is injured because the man fought back against her physical violence towards him. So the woman goes to jail.
In other cases, I've read that if the police can't decide who threw that first punch, they arrest *both* the man and the woman.
I hope you've recovered from this incident and have been able to go on with your life.
Lynn Melville
Author, Boomerang Love
Posted by: Lynn Melville | March 19, 2011 at 11:55 PM