DH used to be a brawler but since we met he's been a star- never in a fight, not even once. He hardly drinks at all, doesn't feel the need to go out all the time. Doesn't provoke anyone or anything like that. He's really turned over a new leaf, so good on him!
He is very protective of DS and I, but has never been in a situation to have to fight for us so far- but I know he can look after us IYKWIM. I find this really comforting.
The other day we had an awful appointment at the hospital (documented on childbirth threads). I'm pregnant 36+4- and a midwife made us think that our baby, who has had problems all the way through this pregnancy, has downs syndrome. They also decided they would be delivering baby early. Nothing was explained to us and we were left in a bit of a state (I have spoken to a consultant since who has apologised for the confusion and for that midwife and said that the baby isn't down sydrome, she'd got it wrong, etc) but the fact is, at the time, we were in a bad way.
We were on our way home from the hospital.
There is a busy road with a school on which we have to go down to get home. A car stopped on a speed bump to let other cars through (it was a 4x4- this isn't a 4x4 bashing thread, I'm just saying it was a big car) so obviously we were stopped behind it. The cars passed through the narrow road and the car infront just sat there. We waited a while wondering what he was doing. Then DH went round the car and we looked at the driver. DH held palms of hands up and shrugged shoulders, as in 'what are you doing?'
The man started screaming and shouting through the window (his wife was in the passenger seat). We ignored it and continued to drive away but the man was banging like mad on his horn whilst we went down the street with a line of cars behind us.
DH ended up seeing his arse and turned right into a junction and turned straight back round to go back to the car and see what his problem was. I was shouting at him not to and burst into tears just because I was upset from the hospital (but in all fairness, so was he!). He apologised and said to calm down, he'd just take us home. In this time the man had actually seen us turn back round and he had crapped his pants- he suddenly drove his big car away as fast as he could, looking at DH along the way with a really scared look on his face... having not actually waited to pick the kids up from outside the school!
All that friggin banging on his horn and shouting, but what a pussy.
I'd rather have a DH who can stick up for his family, but chooses to do the right thing rather than some stupid DH who is all mouth and fuss but panics and drives away at the first sign of retaliation!