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So stressed out - Cops
Family & Caregivers / by brioforever
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 March 16th, 2021
...See more So background, my husband has something akin to PTSD from childhood trauma and I was recently diagnosed with Graves Disease and was a bit irrational prior to getting my thyroid levels under control. About 6 months ago we got into an argument which ended up with both of us face to face and he's larger than me so I fell over. I wanted to take our son out of the house to get him away from the energy until we both calmed down, my husband told me I was going to have to call the police bc he wasn't letting me drive anywhere with our son while I was so emotional. I did. Big mistake. A couple of weeks ago, a cop came banging on the door while we were both in bed. They arrested him for domestic violence. Then they told me he wouldn't be out until Monday and to call back then, but actually released him out into the cold (was around freezing) with orders that if he contacted me he wouldn't get a felony. He's a stay at home father, I work nights. We share a cellphone, he didn't even have one and he apparently was drinking ditch water and his feet bleeding by the time he walked the 12 miles to my mom's house (only person he knows locally). So with our living situation, our options were break the law or I become homeless. His arraignment is tomorrow. I hired a lawyer for him but she just told me on the phone that this particular judge is an "asshole", and now I can't stop stressing. I'm supposedly the victim, but it's "the people" against him and I'm not allowed any information about it. I had at one point thought some of his treatment might be a racial issue, but his paperwork says, "white", so I don't think that's it, but always worried about it anyways to add to it. (He's multi-racial Potawatomi, but very pale brown this time of year.) Please someone tell me this nightmare will be over soon. One thing is for sure, I don't know if I will ever call the cops for any reason ever again. I feel guilty bc I should have known better, but was not in a rational place at the time.
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