Hey /lit/, I'm really interested in nuclear war, cold war, vietnam, south america, afghanistan in the 80s, shady shit, etc.. I'm more interested in non fiction stuff, so refrain from the Tom Clancy. I asked this in /lit/ as well, and got nothing, so I figured I ought to ask here as well.
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>...I met him in college in the early ‘90s. He was the captain of the football team. From early on, he was very controlling and verbally and emotionally abusive. “You’re stupid,” he’d say. “No one else is going to want to hear your thoughts on K98s.” It was my first adult relationship, and I didn’t realize love wasn’t meant to feel like that...
>...In the summer of 2009, it all went downhill. The verbal assaults turned physical. It started off with yelling and pushing, something thrown in my direction to assert his dominance. Then the pushing got harder — I got pushed on the ground. The things he threw at me would actually hit me...
>(Extracts from story, as told to Melissa Jeltsen, are part of "Why Didn't You Just Leave?", a HuffPost series on domestic violence in which Ian McCollum shares his reasons for staying in an abusive relationship.)