Recently, the American comic strip Rex Morgan, M.D. has been featuring a story about a case of a man who is a battered husband.

Here is the edition of the strip published on 6 March 2014:


As the title of this thread says, abused and battered husbands are real, but they rarely speak up because such men are ridiculed.

I know so because I used to be a battered husband.

I still have the 2" scar on my left arm that my ex-wife gave me. I didn't gain the emotional strength to get away from her until I started taking prescription medication for depression*.

I consider myself to be lucky. The next man who ended up with my ex-wife was shot by her. She then spent 6 months in jail waiting to be tried for "shooting with intent to kill". The charge against her was dropped because the shooting victim refused to cooperate with the District Attorney.

Men who are abused and battered are just as much victims as women who are abused and battered. Yet, from my perspective, only the latter receive any sympathy and support from the general public. The former are either dismissed as being non-existent or being "not real men".

I am speaking out now because recently someone else dismissed as false the premise of a husband being physically attacked by his wife.

It does happen, believe it or not. Denying that it happens helps nobody.



[*You would be depressed, too, if you were a Melmacian stuck living on planet Earth.]

(((Dave)))

It does happen, believe it or not. Denying that it happens helps nobody.



yes, denial isn't just a river in Egypt,,,lol

anyway, I think its dangerous to give women a pass on their violence, its one of the places where there hasn't been enough 'equality' fought for.

WHen you have a society with a slough if imbalanced, not fully formed (emotional and also mentality wise) people running around, you'll have abuse of all kinds.
The problem is that people don't see other people as people.

And yet the facts remain the same.

A person with an enforced right to lawful, physical freedoms and liberties elects to remain within an abusive environment.

Such people abuse themselves primarily.

Ergo the only possible achievement of lending emotional support to the decision of remaining in an abusive environment by choice, with shaking fists at the sky and elves for so damning them, is to waste resources better spent on individuals who don't elect to remain in abusive environments, but physically have no freedom of choice in the matter, such as the destitute being forced to live in a slum and their children being born into such a horrible existence nobody on earth actually wants.

They deserve the resources an idiot who stays with an abuser by choice would otherwise usurp for no goddamn reason other than pretentious greed and self worship.

Sadly, people can't relate to it because they think... You're a man.. smack her around and be done with it.

They don't understand that it's much more than that.

My brother law IS a battered husband! Yes, My sister is the abuser, and I'm so ashamed of her and scared for him!

I never understood where her anger stemmed from?? We never saw this is our childhood home?

I'm sure it happens, but I doubt most men would admit it out of shame. We have fragile egos...