well im the optimist mrs. carlton and i say the glass is still half full , and being the optimist i say that on the night of november 17th as your husband was beating up on you so bad that he had you on the floor straddling you as he pounded away , that when he finished punishing you and retired to his bedroom , you picked yourself up off the floor , took a kitchen knife in your hand , went into the room and stabbed him in the chest ending his abuse and his life forever .