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(news related) The problem with society
is this type of thinking. This is why domestic violence is the large problem it is now. There is always someone to excuse their bad behavior away. As we say in the counseling world, we can't control what others do but we can control how WE respond. I feel bad for what this family has lost, but making the victim responsible for her death (and her children's) because she "made up a story" makes me so mad! I can't imagine how her family must feel if they've heard about this.
Re: (news related) The problem with society
"As for threats Steven made against his wife ? such as that he?d kill her and then take revenge on members of her family or that he would do things to her with a knife that ?you wouldn?t do to a farm animal,? according to Amy Lake?s statements to prosecutors ? George Lake said his son had regrets.
?He told me he regretted some of the things he said to her,? said George, though he didn?t address Amy?s allegations specifically. ?He said he was horsing around. He was like that. But he said Amy took it seriously.?
Telling your wife you are going to kill her with a knife is NOT "just horsing around". Are you effing kidding me?! This woman had every right to be terrified of this man and try and keep him away from their children.
What a sad article.
I think judge spoke very well and put the father in his place.
Amen.
The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware; joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. -Henry Miller
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This whole story is just crazy.
Is the father in too much shock at his son's actions that he is trying to come up with anything to justify what he did? I hope he doesn't really think that Amy overreacted to his "jokes" about harming her after well, he kind of followed through with it. I'm not sure that interview should have taken place.
That's exactly the part I had the most trouble with.