I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local.
She saved me..
My wife is my rock.
Women are just as ashamed as men are because most of the time, they feel that it is their fault they let us off the hook.
There are a lot of people who feel the same way that I do, but they don\'t bother to reveal themselves.
I crawled into my shell and let no one know the pain that I felt.
My life would go on a fifty-year cycle of shame, guilt, fear, and loneliness.
I was slow to realize that I had started to decline mentally because I could not shake the enmity feeling.
I found myself doing it again.
The very first time I hit a woman, I knew that it was wrong, and the guilt started to consume me right away.
This is a story about me and the things that suffered through for much of my adult life.
The shame abusing your wife or girlfriend is something that no one agrees with.
It has always been considered a disgrace for a man to beat a woman.
But when a man beat his wife or if the wife beat her husband, it was the talk of the town; everybody knew it.
There was no multimedia, and today\'s front-page news was on page 20 the next day.
We didn\'t know much about what was going on outside our town for two or three days.
I grew up in the forties and fifties, when the news was local
