<span style="color: #404040">"he has no right to be involved. they are my children, not his... and if you had defended me like this at any point in the past five years maybe he would have stopped attacking me. instead you basically said i was making it up out of jealousy and demanded i give in over and over again and i did. when he finally abused me in front of you i thought things would change, you said it was unacceptable and you would put a stop to it. you didn't. i compromised for five years while he escalated the abuse and you refused to defend me, I'm done compromising."</span>she nodded and sighed.<span style="color: #404040">"i am painfully aware and that is more or less what she was doing... it's complicated but she thought her clutch was murdered. i plan to bathe her as soon as she wakes up with enough energy not to drown in the tub."</span><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>