Yes, Changing, I want you to know that if I had been around while those daily beatings were being done, I would have been the one who reported it to the authorities and probably went head to head with the abuser!
Am I a fixer?  a rescuer?  admittedly so, but only because one of the worst things, and the main thing that is done which keeps the abuse going on, is for a "good man to sit by and do nothing."  I'm not a sitter, a bystander, a do-nothinger.
My Nh's mother stayed with her abusive, molesting husband, during all the years of abuse and molestation.  It has caused a real issue with me and with her daughters...the fact that she stayed even while KNOWING the children were being harmed.
~Laura