Scream

“But you're a doctor.” They don't say it, but it's in their eyes when I tell them that my husband was arrested for domestic assault and battery. My office manager tells me she doesn't understand it. She's told her husband that if he ever hits her he'd better make it a good one, because she's coming up off that floor and killing him. I tell her they don't start the relationship by hitting you.

At first, they are kind and loving and only trying to help you improve yourself. He would ask me …