A Bad Day

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A Bad Day I had one of the worst days of my life on August 30, 2006. On this day, domestic violence hurts became part of my life. People see incidents involving this either in the news or on television. However, when it affects one personally, it takes on a whole new meaning. No woman or man should ever have to deal with this. At 4:00 a.m., I woke up with the start of a migraine headache. I went downstairs to get my headache tablets, and I just made it downstairs just as my son, who was four months old at the time, woke up. He needed to be changed and given a bottle. I started to feed him as my husband came down the steps. He started yelling at me for not having his lunch started for work. Although I was feeding the baby, that did not matter to him. I finished with the baby and put him back to bed. When I let my husband know that I was starting to get a migraine, he said that I was just making up excuses to not make his lunch. Although I felt terrible, I started to make his lunch as he was getting ready for work. As I started to put this in his lunch box, he yelled about his work clothes. His one pair of work pants were misplaced. Again I had to stop what I was doing to get his pants. I found them in his dresser drawer, along with his other work clothes. Then he finished dressing, grabbed his lunch can, and walked out the door for work. After he left, I thought I would be able to lie down before the kids woke up. I was wrong; he called the house phone and asked what I was doing. I told him that I was resting before the children woke up. Yelling at me over the phone, he told me to get off my lazy butt. House work could be getting done, instead of my lying around and doing nothing. At this point, my feelings towards this were mixed. I did not know why he was acting the way he was. He was in moods like this before, but this seemed to be worse. Then he
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