29 1/2 Years of Marriage: I was married to a preacher who was a pimp/conartist/player

Surviving the Unimaginable By Ruth Janie Webb He beat me with a hammer. He beat me with a bat. He strangled me until all of my breath had gone and I was left for dead. He shoved the barrel of a 22 riffle in my mouth and told me he’d blow my brains out and kill the children too. So when he spit on me, bit me, slapped me or kicked me, it didn’t seem so bad. Self-esteem? What self-esteem! As bad as the physical abuse was, the mental abuse seemed almost worse. My husband would brag tome that he...