I was going to make this post about "my friend" but honestly, I think I just need to be open about me.
How do you cope? When you live with someone who
will hit (not hard and not enough to bruise but will hityou and also shove, thump things near you and so on)
won't take no for an answer for sex, pulls your pants down as you pull them up, insists, ejaculates when you don't want them to and have asked/begged/pleaded not to
controls EVERYTHING
I need out, but I am TERRIFIED of leaving my children, our children, with him